Re: GeoServer HTML ImageMap extension?

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> Chris Holmes wrote:
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>>>> > Do you present it to the user as is, or do some javascript wizardry
>>>> > to merge it with another html page?
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>>> The latter, we currently use it in a full blown application where we
>>> "merge" a raster map with the imagemap at runtime (when it's needed).
>>> This means two different requests to geoserver, one for the raster
>>> map, one for the "tooltip" imagemap level. But this is the way we use
>>> it. Someone else can probably use it in a different way.
>>>
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>> This is super cool.  I like this approach a lot.  Can you do full
>> javascript pop-ups in your onclick events?  Like instead of just a
>> tooltip?  If it can do that then we're very close to a way to better
>> solve the issue of displaying tons of javascript pop-up points on a
>> map.  I think Google recently paid a lot of money to buy a company for
>> this very technology - to render out the clickable pop-ups instead of
>> doing them with javascript.
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>> Chris
> In theory, you can define an SLD like this:
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> <Rule>
>    <Name>onclick</Name>
>    ...
>    <TextSymbolizer>
>       <Label>
>             <Function name="strConcat">
>                   <Literal>viewInfo('</Literal>
>                      <Function name="strConcat">
>                               <PropertyName>[the property containing
> text or html to view on a popup window]</PropertyName>
>                               <Literal>');</Literal>
>                      </Function>
>             </Function>
>       </Label>
>    </TextSymbolizer>
>    ...
> </Rule>
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