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TerraView 5.0 - Main concepts related
The new concepts adopted in TerraLib/TerraView are summarized here in a way users of TerraView 4.x.x will quickly understand the main changes.
| Features | DataSource | From: TerraView 4.3.2 | To: terraView 5.0 | Stored (access or Postgis) |
| Converter | database.mdb | Vector Layer | Vector | It will be stored into the datasource defined by the user |
| Tabular Layer | Tabular | It will be stored into the datasource defined by the user | ||
| Raster Layer | Raster | It will be saved in Directory defined by the user | ||
| External Tables | Tabular | It will be stored as a tabular | ||
| View | Map Display | the View can be compared to the Map Display (the view projection is the Map Display SRID) | ||
| Theme | Layer | Layer showed in a Map Display (reprojected to the Map Display SRID) | ||
| Theme Visual | Style | The Visual concept is the Styler store inside the Project file | ||
| External Tables | Tabular | It will be stored as a tabular | ||
| Project File | For each Layer, the project file keep one reference to one dataset located in a datasource and other information like style (visual),etc. | |||
| DataSource | Datasource is a location where to find data (Postgis database, access database,dir of vectos, dir or rasters , url) | |||
| Connector | It is a set of parameters used to identify an existing datasource to the application (each datasource can have a specific set of parameters). Also used to create a new datasource to insert data on it. | |||
