= Mappit/GIS Developer Wiki =

This wiki should help us keep track of the concepts developed so far and is also a base for discussion. [[br]] It should be checked and updated regularly by anyone who partakes in the developement of the website.

== e4D related Developments ==

[wiki:mmpa A visualisation and of administrative data]

== Manual ==
* [wiki:Manual]
* Prototype: http://mappit.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/mappit


== Rules for editing the Wiki ==
Please respect the following rules, should you ever edit anything in the Wiki:
 - do not change something that you didn't create without asking the author. Adding new paragraphs/comments is ok, but should be marked with the authors name (e.g. "''This should be reviewed in the next meeting  --- Christopher''")
 - if a Wiki page becomes too long, try subdividing it into multiple pages by replacing large blocks of content by only an appropriate title and/or summary and linking to a new page with the full contents of the topic
 - introductary texts and summaries are always nice and help readers find out what they can find on a page


== Meetings ==
 * [wiki:Protocols Desing of a new ChinaGIS-GUI]
 * [wiki:MPDLGIS Transfer from ChinaGIS to MPDL-GIS]


== Developement Branches ==

 * [wiki:Usecases Usecases and User Scenarios]
 * [wiki:Workflows]
 * [wiki:Modules]
 * [wiki:Frontend Frontend (GUI)]
 * [wiki:Backend]
 * [wiki:SystInst System Installation]
 * [wiki:XMLGIS XML-GIS Integration]
 * [wiki:UserRights User Rights Management]
 * [wiki:OpenTasks Open Tasks]
 * [wiki:ArcGisOnMac ArcGis on Mac Installation]
 * [wiki:PostGreSQL Editing PostGreSQL]




== Application Material and Projects ==

 * [wiki:StudentProjects Student Projects]
 * [http://chinagis.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/chinagis/sublementary/Map_of_Forbidden_City Map of the Forbidden City]


== Vocabulary ==
 * '''[wiki:workspace]''' - a workspace is a set of '''blocks''' chosen by the user in an order chosen by the user. A workspace can be given a name, it can be saved and restored.
 * '''dependency''' - in this context, dependency of one object to another means that changes made to one of them can directly transfer to the other.
 * '''Table''' - consists Table definition (number and labels of columns) and Table data. No dependencies to other Tables etc.
 * '''View''' - a set of rules that combines multiple Tables into one (visually) Table-like structure. Directly dependend on Tables.
 * '''mappable''' - every Table or View that contains or is associated with valid geographic data
 * '''Compiled View''' - conversion of a view into a Table, thus becoming independent of the original tables.
 * '''Published Table''' - a Table, that can only be viewed or used for Views, or deleted, but not changed. If it is necessary to have the possibility to change a published table anyway, maybe a versioning functionality could be included that allows to create successive versions of the same table.
 * '''[wiki:Blocks]''' - the visual window-like units the workspaces will consist of. Every Table, View, Map etc. will be displayed in it's own block. A block has a ''Title Bar'', ''Menu Bar'' and a ''Body''

=== IT-related Definitions and Terms ===
  * LIST defines a one-dimensional array of data
  * TABLE defines a two-dimensional array of data with DATASETs as rows and ATTRIBUTEs as columns
  * VIEW defines a view of a query. The view is not physically materialized. Instead, the query is run every time the view is referenced in a query. 
  * PRIMARY KEY is an unique identifier attribute for a dataset in a table and can be used to relate to a SECONDARY KEY attribute in another table. 

  
=== User-related Definitions and Terms ===
  * see also [http://chinagis.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/chinagis/sublementary/GIS_Jan_27_2010.pdf GIS Term Definitions and Interface Scenarios Jan, 27th 2010]




== Publications ==

 * [wiki:Taiwan Taiwan Abstracts]

== GeoServer ==

MPIWG has its own GeoServer: [http://geoserver.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/geoserver/index.html]

Documentation for the GeoServer: [wiki:MPIWG_GeoServer]