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  • Mapping Engine
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Mapping Engine

The Mapping Engine is used to communicate with the underlying mapping interfaces supported by the organisations Mapping Software. Its job is to ask the Mapping Software to generate a map of a particular size (in pixels), at a particular location (in metres, feet, degrees, etc) and with a given set of map layers turned on (the layer may actually not be visible at the actual scale selected due to Scale Dependant Renderers that have been applied to the map service).

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We did not mention the concept of user selections or acetate information being rendered on the map. The process of rendering selections is taken care of by Weave when the map is requested. Weave generates a second image with just the selections and acetates on them and combines or fuses the two images together to form one and then passes it to the client.  If you are migrating from EView, this is important to note as EView required that if a layer was to be a Selection Layer, it had to be included in the ArcIMS service. With Weave this is not required as Weave handles the selection rendering itself. This an advantage as it enables sites to produce a cartographically correct static image of the area of interest and serve that to a particular set of users for viewing whilst still enabling the user to select any defined Entity.

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Spatial Engine

The Spatial Engine is used to communicate with the underlying Spatial Database (this does not have to be a physical RDBMS, it could be a file based Spatial System like shapefiles) to request geometry and undertake spatial operations (e.g. buffer, intersect, etc). The Spatial Engine does not do any rendering of maps. It is a datastore that provides the information needed to execute spatial functions and render selected features. Different types of Spatial Engines suit different requirements. File based systems are good for small organisations where data is only edited infrequently and by no more than one or two people. If however you have multiple people editing the underlying spatial data and it is changed on a regular basis, then a enterprise system that supports concurrent editing, versioning and role based access would be required.

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Entity

An entity provides a basic reference to an item that will be searched and report on within Weave. Its relationships within Weave are shown in the diagram below.
 

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Relationships

All the building blocks of Weave can be brought together and their relationships shown in the diagram below.

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