= ChinaGIS Developer Wiki =

Goals of the ChinaGIS project:




== Developement Branches ==

 * [wiki:Usecases]
 * [wiki:Workflows]
 * [wiki:Frontend Frontend (GUI)]
 * [wiki: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.