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Refresh Extension for the MapSetJSON Specification

Authors
Trey Smith (Carnegie Mellon University)
Revision
Pre-0.1 draft
Date
31 Jan 2012
Canonical URL of this document
http://mapmixer.org/mapsetjson/ext/refresh/0.1/
Further information
http://mapmixer.org/mapsetjson/

Contents

1   Introduction

This extension adds the ability to specify when map layers should be refreshed. It extends the MapSetJSON Core Specification.

2   Examples

To declare that a MapSetJSON document uses this extension:

"extensions": {
  "refresh": "http://mapmixer.org/mapsetjson/ext/refresh/0.1/"
}

An example Include object that will be refreshed every 60 seconds:

{
  "type": "include.Include",
  "name": "Subfolder Managed by External Organization",
  "url": "http://example.com/externalLayers.json",
  "refresh.mode": "onInterval",
  "refresh.interval": 60
}

3   Refresh Members

This extension defines new members for classes of nodes that link to external content through a url member, including the Layer class and the Include class of the MapSetJSON Include Extension. These members specify when and how to refresh the node.

To "refresh" means to fetch the linked content of the node again and update the map display with any changes.

Member Type Values Meaning
refresh.mode enumerated (string) "onChange" (default) Refresh when the node's parameters change.
"onInterval" Refresh every n seconds (specified in refresh.interval).
"onExpire" Refresh when the expiration time is reached, as specified by the HTTP max-age or Expires mechanisms (see HTTP Header Field Definitions).
refresh.interval number optional Number of seconds to wait between refreshes in "onInterval" mode.
refresh.viewMode [1] enumerated (string) "onRequest" (default) Refresh when the user explicitly requests it.
"onStop" Refresh n seconds after the view stops moving (specified in refresh.viewTime).
refresh.viewTime number optional (default: 0) Number of seconds to wait after view stops moving in "onStop" mode.
refresh.viewFormat string optional The format of a query string to append to the url member before sending to the server. No query string is appended by default. See Refresh viewFormat Template Parameters.
refresh.viewBoundScale number optional How much to scale the map view bounding box before filling in [bbox...] template parameters for refresh.viewFormat. An amount less than 1 means the bounding box includes a subset of the map view. An amount greater than 1 means it includes additional area around the map view.
refresh.httpQuery string optional The format of a query string to append to the url member before sending to the server. No query string is appended by default. See Refresh httpQuery Template Parameters.

3.1   Refresh viewFormat Template Parameters

The refresh.viewFormat string may include template parameters drawn from the following:

  • [bboxWest], [bboxSouth], [bboxEast], [bboxNorth]: These are the boundaries of the minimum-size geospatial bounding box that includes the current map view, scaled by the refresh.viewBoundScale member if provided.

3.2   Refresh httpQuery Template Parameters

The refresh.httpQuery string may include template parameters drawn from the following:

  • [viewerName]: The name of the viewer. For a JavaScript web browser based viewer implementation, this should ordinarily be the name of the viewer implementation itself, not (for example) the name of the browser, which is already passed to the server in an HTTP header.
  • [viewerVersion]: The version of the viewer.
  • [mapsetjsonVersion]: The value of the "mapsetjson" member of the primary MapSetJSON document.
  • [language]: The user's preferred language, specified according to IETF BCP 47.

3.3   Refresh Example

{
  "type": "kml.KML",
  "name": "Fire Vehicle Locations",
  "url": "http://example.com/fireVehicleLocations.kml",

  // basic refresh options: refresh every 60 seconds
  "refresh.mode": "onInterval",
  "refresh.interval": 60,

  // view-based refresh options: also refresh every time the user
  // moves the map view (but wait to send the request until 5 seconds
  // after the view stops moving)
  "refresh.viewMode": "onStop",
  "refresh.viewTime": 5,

  // pass view information to server as query parameters
  "refresh.viewFormat": "bbox=[bboxWest],[bboxSouth],[bboxEast],[bboxNorth]",

  // make the viewFormat bbox parameters include 10% extra padding around
  // the map view
  "refresh.viewBoundScale": 1.1,

  // pass other information to server as query parameters
  "refresh.httpQuery": "viewer=[viewerName]&version=[viewerVersion]&lang=[language]"
}

4   Footnotes

[1]KML defines additional <viewRefreshMode> values of "onRegion" and "never". This extension does not define "onRegion" because MapSetJSON lacks any equivalent to the KML <Region>. It does not define "never" because, in practice, Google Earth treats "never" the same as "onRequest".