ChinaGIS Developer Wiki

Goals of the ChinaGIS project:

Developement Branches

• Usecases
• Workflows
• Frontend (GUI)
• Backend

Vocabulary

(as i understand it)

• 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.