Re: [Koha] Drawing Software - Floor Mapping Library's Collections

2018-07-23 Thread Barton Chittenden
Yeah, that should be super-easy to do. If I'm not mistaken, SVG can be manipulated via CSS, so it might be as easy as giving a class to each section in the drawing that represents a shelving location. For a given item, you'd read items.location, and then change the color for that class. As long as

Re: [Koha] Drawing Software - Floor Mapping Library's Collections

2018-07-23 Thread Indranil Das Gupta
Owen: Indeed! I was thinking of it last night that an SVG map generated in Inkscape or something and then the pointer rendered or styled on top (or not render the map for non-tagged / tagable items) using XSLT The footprint of such a solution may be the lightest to render. Just my 2p Indranil

Re: [Koha] Drawing Software - Floor Mapping Library's Collections

2018-07-23 Thread Owen Leonard
> I think a mapping function for Koha, where we could show the > (approximate) location of an item on a map, would be super useful. I don't know anything about how an implementation would work, but I'd like to put in my vote for a solution that uses SVG. There are perl libraries for generating SVG

Re: [Koha] Drawing Software - Floor Mapping Library's Collections

2018-07-23 Thread Magnus Enger
On Tue, 17 Jul 2018 at 23:07, Indranil Das Gupta wrote: > This might be interesting if we are looking for OSS solutions > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Indoor_Mapping There is also this library, which might prove useful: https://leafletjs.com/ It can be used with custom images (e.g. a floor

Re: [Koha] Drawing Software - Floor Mapping Library's Collections

2018-07-19 Thread Martin Renvoize
I believe it's a homegrown solution, but it's been a while since I've interacted with them directly I'm afraid. I've always thought it looked pretty cool and helpful to patrons though :) *Martin Renvoize* Development Manager *T:* +44 (0) 1483 378728 *F:* +44 (0) 800 756 6384 *E:* martin.re

Re: [Koha] Drawing Software - Floor Mapping Library's Collections

2018-07-18 Thread Barton Chittenden
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018, 5:14 AM Martin Renvoize < martin.renvo...@ptfs-europe.com> wrote: > European Southern Observatory have been doing this for as long as I can > remember. > > > https://eso.koha-ptfs.eu/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=121769&query_desc=callnum%2Cphr%3A%20A%2014-1 Mart

Re: [Koha] Drawing Software - Floor Mapping Library's Collections

2018-07-18 Thread Martin Renvoize
European Southern Observatory have been doing this for as long as I can remember. https://eso.koha-ptfs.eu/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=121769&query_desc=callnum%2Cphr%3A%20A%2014-1 *Martin Renvoize* Development Manager *T:* +44 (0) 1483 378728 *F:* +44 (0) 800 756 6384 *E:* ma

Re: [Koha] Drawing Software - Floor Mapping Library's Collections

2018-07-18 Thread drojup
This feature (https://hartford.waldo.kohalibrary.com/app/work/141581) where a location map shows the item position would be great! -- Sent from: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Koha-general-f3047918.html ___ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.o

Re: [Koha] Drawing Software - Floor Mapping Library's Collections

2018-07-17 Thread Indranil Das Gupta
Yep stackmap and proprietary as $CHOICEOFWORD. This might be interesting if we are looking for OSS solutions https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Indoor_Mapping Cheers Indranil On Wed 18 Jul, 2018, 2:23 AM Barton Chittenden, wrote: > Nate says this was done using 'stackmap'. > > On Tue, Jul 17,

Re: [Koha] Drawing Software - Floor Mapping Library's Collections

2018-07-17 Thread Barton Chittenden
Nate says this was done using 'stackmap'. On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 4:50 PM, Barton Chittenden < bar...@bywatersolutions.com> wrote: > Cab, > > Apparently not impossible: > > https://hartford.waldo.kohalibrary.com/app/work/141581 > > I don't know any details of the implementation, though. > > --Bar

Re: [Koha] Drawing Software - Floor Mapping Library's Collections

2018-07-17 Thread Barton Chittenden
Cab, Apparently not impossible: https://hartford.waldo.kohalibrary.com/app/work/141581 I don't know any details of the implementation, though. --Barton On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Cab Vinton wrote: > Wonder how hard it would be implement something like this in Koha: > > http://tallons.l

Re: [Koha] Drawing Software - Floor Mapping Library's Collections

2018-07-17 Thread Roger Hiles
Hi-- Try GIMP (https://www.gimp.org/) It's not the simplest program in the world, but it's a great, all-purpose graphics program. Lots of online assistance, tutorials, etc. Plus, it's free. Roger Hiles Arcadia Public Library -Original Message- From: Koha [mailto:koha-boun...@lists.

Re: [Koha] Drawing Software - Floor Mapping Library's Collections

2018-07-17 Thread Cab Vinton
Wonder how hard it would be implement something like this in Koha: http://tallons.law.utexas.edu/record=b2070846 (see dark blue Map It! button on the right, next to Status) This is provided through a commercial product, but the basic technology doesn't seem all that complicated (from a layman's

Re: [Koha] Drawing Software - Floor Mapping Library's Collections

2018-07-17 Thread Barton Chittenden
There are a couple of good open source drawing packages that should be available on Windows, Mac or Linux: OpenOffice has a package called 'draw' that works quite well For vector graphics, I would look at inkscape: https://inkscape.org/en/ On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 12:40 PM, jeff haskell wrote: