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TerraView 5.0 - Main concepts
The new concepts adopted in TerraLib/TerraView 5.0 are summarized here in a way users of TerraView 4.2.2 will quickly understand the main changes.
Tool | DataSource | From: TerraView 4.2.2 | To: terraView 5.0 | Explanation |
Converter | my_db.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 a Directory defined by the user | ||
External Tables | Tabular | It will be stored as a tabular layer into the datasource defined by the user | ||
View | Map Display | A View can be compared to the Map Display (the view projection is the Map Display SRID) |
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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 a reference to a dataset stored in a datasource and also keep its style(point/line/polygon) of visualization,etc. |
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Layer Explorer | It lists all Layers referenced in a Project | |||
DataSource | Data Source is a location where to find data (Postgis Database, Microsoft Access Database, Directory of vector files, Directory of raster files and URL) | |||
Connector | It is used to registry an existing datasource (or to define a new datasource) into a file called datasource.xml |