GeoTycoon User Manual
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1. Zoom level longitudes Eros espe 90 Leo latit 90 0 0 1 0 2 0 3 0 udes 45 0 1 1 1 231 3 1 0 0 2 1 2 2 2 3 2 43 Q3 173 223323 90 To define the layer layerld as of type tiles set the following entry layerId tiles To define the of the layer activation button in the GEOMAP display set the following entry layerId icon url of an image of size 16x16 pixels layerId icon physics dted elev gif To define the tool tip text of the layer activation button when mouse hovers it in the GEOMAP display set the following entry layerId tooltip tool tip text ex layerId tooltip Map Tiles To define the javascript to be invoked to retrieve the list of possible tile sets and the tiles urls set the following entry layerld javascript url of the javascript file ex layerId javascript tiles maptiles js The javascript shall contain the two following functions function sourceList 1 return tilesetl tileset2 function getURL tileset zoom tx ty return url tileset zoom tx ty tilesetN The getURL function shall return the url of an image in gif png or jpeg format for display on the map The javascript functions can refer to the javascript value scriptBaseURL to reference tile files Page 26 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 relatively to the javascript location var ScriptBaseURL function bl2. Ho d EM CETUR this tab selected CONF Web Map WW E IEEE The GEOMAP tab selects the fully functional network editor based on a Mercator projection of the WGS84 The top menu bar allows some actions on the editor and the construction of the network on the map is performed through the mouse a mouse right click on the map will open a contextual menu to create delete dis connect network objects and perform other map actions depending on the position of the mouse cursor on the map Page 8 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 3 2 2 EDIT CONF tab zoom out display the grid zoom in generate a configuration report save a photo in png format reload network model save a photo in svg format disnlaw fi isplay titer line spacing E demo 25 elements filter Offshore Well 05 Offshore Well 03 Off Shore Well 04 OffShora Well 02 OffShora Wall Q1 3825 GEOMAR EDIT CONF Vib Map WW This tab selected Page 9 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 3 2 3 WEB MAP tab GEOMAP EDIT Web Map WW Page 10 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 3 2 4 WW tab S demo 22 lat 21 55 56 875 96 56 33 049 e 1499 idle OMME a international F Ganta diea
3. node route position The network model is defined by a javascript file that describe the object classes which are part of the network model The object classes are specified in the javascript object notation JSON The javascript shall contain a function Network that returns the network object class of the model 6 1 Geo Object Classes 6 1 1 geo object geo object is an abstract object that super class all other GeoTycoon objects This means that all attributes and methods of geo object are implemented by all other GeoTycoon objects Attribute Summary Page 18 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 string id the identifier of the object class String base define the base class and is one amongst geo network geo node geo routePosition geo route geo line string uiname the name of the class to be presented by the user interface network editor reports String uinickname the short version of the name of the class to be presented by the user interface network editor reports Object objects the list of subordinate object classes contained under the object class outline boolean create define the behaviour in the outline window if create is true the objects boolean display of the class can be created by an action in the outline window If display is true the objects of the class are displayed in the outline window default value is 1 cre
4. return url urll jpg north nl west wl south sl east el t url url2 7pg north n2 west w2 south SZ Gast G2 ty se S Page 27 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 7 4 areas An area 15 a surface of the globe delimited by a set of geographic coordinates latitude longitude The area can be associated with attributes such as the country name population density soil type to refer to a few examples An areas layer comprises a superposed sets of areas each set consisting in areas of a particular type A set of areas consists 1n areas associated with the same category of information and which do not overlap For instance areas delimiting countries where the information associated with an area 1s the country name For a given area layer the User Application fetch area information for a given coordinates point from the first area set if no area set enclose the coordinates point it looks at the next area set etc until an area corresponds to the coordinates and its attributes are associated to the coordinates To define the layer layerId as of type areas set the following entry layerId areas List the areas set from top to bottom by setting the layerId areas entry layerId areas arealdl areaIG2 areaId3 Define the name of the layer by setting the layerId name entry This name will be used by the report function of the User Application to identify the area information associated with netw
5. Attributes from geo object id base uiname uinickname objects outline attributes 6 1 5 geo route geo route 1s a geographic place where transport is initiated terminated processed or commuted Nodes can be interconnected by route positions Attributes from geo object id base uiname uinickname objects outline attributes 6 1 6 geo line geo line is a connection between two nodes and which follows a geographic path based on defined routes route positions and intermediate nodes Attributes from geo object Page 20 39 GEOTY COON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 id base uiname uinickname objects outline attributes 6 2 Object class naming Each network model shall be identified to by a unique identifier and all object classes defined under this network shall have the identifier of the network at the root of their own identifier For instance if the network model identifier is mytest mymodel the object classes under the model shall be identified as mytest mymodel myobject 6 3 Auxiliary Object Interfaces 6 3 1 InfoAttributes Attribute Summary InfoAttribute attributes The list of information attributes see section 6 3 2 6 3 2 InfoAttribute Attribute Summary string id The identifier of the attribute String classz The class of the attribute either string integer or real String Double defaultz The default val
6. Page 34 39 GEOTY COON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT ED07 the geographic information source specified under the User Application configuration file b Inter Position Span geographic attributes Sphere Span The distance between two contiguous positions in the list measured at the surface of the WGS 84 spheroid Terrain Span The distance between two contiguous positions in the list measured following the terrain elevations C Area information An attribute is associated with each of the geographic information source of the category area specified in the content definition file chapter 7 Geographic Information Sources The identifier of the attribute 1s the name provided to identify the type of areas eg Political Boundaries and the values for each position are a combination the value of the attributes of the area enclosing the position preceded by the type of area short name sname sname areaAttributel areaAttribute2 eg CNTRY Puerto Rico United States of America d Connectivity attributes The connectivity attributes indicate if a route position is connected to a node ConnectionRef the reference to the connected node as referenced under the NODES sheet ConnectionType the type of the node as as defined by the uinickname of the node object in the network model cf chapter 6 Network Model Definition ConnectionName the local name of the node given par the User InterConnection a combination of the types of the nodes
7. GEOTY COON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 6 Network Model Definition The GeoTycoon editor can be tailored to specific applications by defining one or more network models The network models are passed to the editor application through the configuration file GeoTycoon network 15 basically composed of four classes of objects the node is a geographic place where transport is initiated terminated processed or commuted Nodes can be interconnected by route positions the route position 1s a geographic path from one node to another defined by a list of consecutive geographical route positions way points Route positions can be connected with nodes the route is a geographic route from one node to another defined by a list of consecutive route positions and intermediate nodes The purpose of this type of object is to describe a route between two nodes by reusing a set of existing route position segments the line is a connection between two nodes and which follows a geographic path based on defined routes route positions and intermediate nodes To give an example with a school bus network the nodes can be compared to bus stops road crossings round abouts and bus depot the route positions can be compared to roads and the lines can be compared to the fixed transit lines between the depot and the school eter s Farm John s Hamlet B Franklin School T Edison School Bus Depot
8. XXXXXX 6 3 5 SvgGraphics Attribute Summary sSvgElement elements List of the SVG elements If the SvgGraphic 15 attached to a geo route geo routePosition or a geo line object one of the elements shall be an SVG polyline Double x Double y j connectionPoint This attribute is used only for nodes It indicates in the relative coordinate system of the SvgGraphic the point where routes are connected to the node 6 3 6 SvgElement Attribute Summary String element The type of element Refer to SVG specification 1 1 for the possible values The basic shapes have the following value rect circle ow oou ellipse line polyline polygon Page 22 39 GEOTY COON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 SvgAttribute attributes The list of attributes associated with the element 6 3 7 SvgAttribute Attribute Summary string 3 0 The first value is a context switch that indicates in which context the attribute 1s applicable Temporal context t past the attribute is applicable to objects which are marked as past objects in the selected configuration filter t present the attribute is applicable to objects which are marked as present objects in the selected configuration filter t future the attribute is applicable to objects which are marked as future objects in the selected configuration filter Orientation co
9. 2 z in longitude by 180 2 z in latitude e mazetiles raster images to be displayed on the map e areas e polylines e locations As an example if layerIdl is of the type the Content Definition File shall have the following entry layerId1 dted 7 1 source provides information on terrain elevation according to latitude longitude coordinates The terrain elevation information shall be structured as a set of sub sources for given granularity levels Each sub source contains binary files each file containing the elevation information for a specific lat lon rectangle area on the sphere each rectangle being of equal size e g 30x30 degrees each Subject to the given lat lon granularity of the sub source the lat lon granular step value the files provide an elevation value for a square granular surface inside the area The finest lat lon granular step value for a file is 1 arc second so a can contain up to one elevation value for each arc second granular square in the area file is structured as a java array of short integer elevation in the sequence of elevation lt lon0 latO gt elevation lonO lat1 elevation lt lonO latN gt elevation lt lon1 latO gt elevation lt lon1 latl gt elevationclonl latN gt elevation lt lonN lat0 gt elevation lt lonN lat1 gt elevation lt lonN latN gt Page 24 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 where
10. 500 Km Altitude 3 965 km Lat 21 9325 Lon 96 9425 Elev 1 499 meters GEOMAP EDIT CONF Web Map WW 3 3 Objects outline view The objects outline view lists all network objects a group hierachical structure defined by the User The object selected in the outline view left mouse click 16 detailled the object properties view and some of its properties can be modified in this view The color of the object on the map will also change to facilitate its localisation on the map A double mouse click on an object in the outline view will center the corresponding object in the network map display 3 4 Object properties view This view shows the properties of the object selected in the outline view and allow modifying some of them Page 11 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT 07 3 4 1 Properties common to all objects a History r History Tracks creation and modifications of the objects date and author History Created 15h27 13 05 2010 CEST by GeoTycoon Modified 21h39 28 02 2011 CET by GeoTycoon b Local Name t Local Name Edit the local name of the object The full name of the object is constructed from the sequence of the enclosing group names and the local name in a similar way as a file name in a computer system local Name Edit pply Local Name Jand trunk 000 3 4 2 Properties of route position objects a Connections i a List of all the
11. Connections t Connections Connections Manage Connections oldemo land trunk PRP roil demo Littke Rock Page 14 39 GEOTY COON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 4 Network Configurations A Network Configuration extends the basic geographic network setup by defining additional relationship over the nodes and routes by defining lines and configuration arrangements It also provides schematic views of the geographic network Page 15 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 5 User Software Configuration The configuration of the user software allows to define custom network models and custom geographic layers to underlay the network display The configuration is defined through a text file passed by the user to the user application the Content Definition File The file is passed to the user application at the end of the user application registration process It is also possible to change the configuration file through the user interface On the top bar menu select Tools Configuration and Content Definition File Click on the Select button to change the current Content Definition File GEOTYCOON 2 0 3046 build 2011 File Hep C 170 Configuration Preferenci L1 tli Proxy Settings LlI UTNE Content Definition File e Content Definition File The Content Definition File contains a list of definitions The syntax of the each definition is a set of jdentier
12. EDIT CONF Web Map WW 6 PRP 0 PRP 0 Properties 2 Oil Tanker oil demo Houston OFOW OffShore Well 03 o OOW OffShore Well 04 OOW OffShore Well 05 amp NetCf 0 Local Name History b Canrdinates GeoTycoon combines a Geographic Information System a Geographic Infrastructure Network Editor and an Application Server The Geographic Information System provide and display geographic information it can to customised to specific needs and can provide access to various kind of geographic information such as e Satellite Imagery Blue Marble LANDSAT e Terrain Elevation and Bathymetry ETOPOI GEBCO Thematic Raster Cartography Street maps Thematic Vector Cartography Administrative Boundaries Geological Areas Page 2 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 e Points of Interest volcanoes cities More information on how to specify geographic information sources can be found at section 7 Geographic Information Sources page 24 The Geographic Infrastructure Network Editor allows to design and manage simple or complex networks based on specific network models you can tailor The network models are themselves based on a fairly simple and generic network model consisting of the following base objects e node a geographic place where some kind of processing takes place e g a warehouse a manufacturing plant a power plan
13. lon0 1 10 gt is the top left coordinate of the rectangle elevation area and lonN latN gt is the bottom right coordinate and where latx latx lonx lonx granular angle step To define the layer layerld as of type dted set the following entry layerId dted To define the of the layer activation button in the GEOMAP display set the following entry layerId icon url of an image of size 16x16 pixels ex layerId icon physics dted elev gif To define the tool tip text of the layer activation button when mouse hovers it in the GEOMAP display set the following entry layerId tooltip tool tip text To reference the source and credit the author owner of the layer set the following entry layerId source reference of source author owner To indicate the different resolutions provided by the source set the following entry layerlId resolutions integer value set ex layerId resolutions 480 240 120 30 where each integer value 15 the granular angle step in arc seconds of a sub source Each each sub source structure is further specified by the layerId followed by the granular angle step in seconds of the sub source layerId nbSeconds url FormatString 15 5d 25 width longitudeWidthInDegrees height latitudeHeightInDegreesj layerId 480 url physics dted rl16 geoz 16 2 dx 1 d bin width 30 height 30 ex layerId 240 url S physics dted r8 geoz 8 2 dx 1 d bi
14. the line starts EndZRef same a EndARef for the node where the line ends EndZType same a EndAType for the node where the line ends EndZName same a EndAName for the node where the line ends TapRef optionally the reference to a line which the line taps into TapName optionally the name of the tapped line Contruction attributes Length the geographic length of the line Construct TRUE FALSE this indicates if it is part of the actual network TRUE or if it is a past future or external reference FALSE d Specific object model attributes AttributeId1 AttributeValuel AttributeId2 AttributeValue2 AttributeIdN AttributeValueN The sequence of information attributes identifiers and values as declared by the object model cf section 6 1 1 geo object attributes e Specific report model formulas The report model may contain the definition of additional attributes calculated by means of formulas applied to other cells of the report The additional attribute identifiers and formulas defined by the following report model parameters LINES CUSTOM COLUMN TITLE LINES CUSTOM COLUMN FORMULA and LINES CUSTOM COLUMN FORMULA2 as further described in section 8 2 Report parameters 8 1 2 VALUES TBD 8 1 3 NODES a Node identification attributes Ref a unique integer number to identify the node Class the class name of the node as defined by the 1d of the node object in the network model cf chapter 6 Networ
15. Application Registration Process To be drafted Please follow the instructions displayed by the User Application Page 5 39 GEOTY COON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 3 User Application Sofware GUI Basics The GUI enables to build an infrastructure network on top of geographic maps supported by the display of geographic information corresponding to the mouse cursor position on the map and e to collaborate with other selected users through the Collaboration Center G Orphans lat 20 00 3 556 lon 119 3642 593 e 4087 oil demo lt 4 PRP 0 international 6 PRP 0 2 Houston 74 0 amp 4 OREF Little Rock Po Obl cts 2 Ah 0 Outline 4 PRP 0 0 7 0 PIO OnOW Well 01 OnOW Well 02 OnOW Well 03 he OREF Dallas pA PRP 0 PRP 0 PRP Q OffOW OffShore Well 01 OffOW OffShore Well 02 V 0 PRP 0 GEOMAP EDIT CONF Web Map WW V PRP 0 2 PRP 0 Properties Ai 0 Oil Route Position demo E Forse Object Properties OffOW OffShore Well 04 OffOW OffShore Well 05 S NetCf 0 gt Local Name History b Cannectinn lt Ltt ine status 3 1 Top Menu Bar The top menu bar provides access to top level functions such as loading and saving a network file File sub menu global configuration settings Tools sub menu and prov
16. GEOTY COON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO7 www geosoftliner org Page 1 39 GEOTY COON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 1 Introduction GeoTycoon 16 an experimental tool that can help you design evaluate reference and publish large infrastructure networks ground transportation water supply and waste power grids telecommunications from street to continental scales GeoTycoon applications span from design to implementation and maintenance of large infrastructure networks The name GeoTycoon is a wink to a family of management games GEOTYCOON 2 0 2043 build 20100404 imm n mr File Tools Help expire 02 12 2010 offline 15 06 2010 293 ms B Outline B i demo 3 By Orphans lat 29 08 35 389 lon 95 31 24 896 11 24 0 EX c 3 D 8l n oil demo 0 CNTRY United States of America United States oil demo Houston Ir E 0 gt Caracas Houston v 0 We OREF Little Rock PIO PRP Q PJ0 0 4 0 We OREF Saint Louis 0 PRP Q A OnOW Well 01 OnOW Well 02 OnOW Well 03 We OREF Dallas 6 PRP 0 6 PRP 0 6 PRP 0 OOW OffShore Well 01 OOW OffShore Well 02 6 0 Po amp 0 GEOMAP
17. To set the name of the layerIdO set the following entry layerId0 name Cities To credit the source of the information of layerIdO set the following entry layerId0 source Unknown To set the color of the square icon representing the location on the map set the following entry in hexadecimal RGB format layeridO0 locationColor FF0000 To set the color of the name of the location on the map set the following entry in hexadecimal RGB format layeridO0 nameColor OOFFO00 To set the database URL set the following entry layerId0 data politics citiesl csv The database records shall include a name a character string attribute displayed with the square icon To set the index of the name attribute in the database set the following entry layerId0 data name 0 The database records shall include a scale an integer attribute that indicates from which zoom scale the location is displayed on the map To set the index of the scale attribute in the database set the following entry layerId0 data scale 6 The database records shall include a latitude and longitude both real numbers for the geographical coordinates of the location To set the indexes of the latitude and longitude attributes in the database set the following entries layerId0 data latitude 5 layerId0 data longitude 4 Page 30 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 8 Network Configuration Reports The User Application allo
18. ate true display true ConfReport report define the way the object is handled by the configuration report manager InfoAttribute attributes the list of user information attributes attached to the object These attributes are not operated by the application but are accessible for editing through the graphical user interface and are reported in the configuration reports 6 1 2 geo network geo network is a root container for a set of objects that are interconnected There 15 only a single instance of this class under the GeoTycoon network editor Attribute Summary displayMaskSet TBD Page 19 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 6 1 3 geo node geo node 15 a geographic place where transport 15 initiated terminated processed or commuted Nodes can be interconnected by route positions Attribute Summary string displayImage The URL of an image that will be displayed on the GEOMAP and WWMAP of the editor Attributes from geo object id base uiname uinickname objects outline attributes Attributes from GenericGraphic 16 1con32 displayScale displayMask displayLayer svggraphics webgraphics 6 1 4 geo routePosition geo routePosition 15 a geographic path from one node to another defined by a list of consecutive geographical route positions way points Route positions can be connected with nodes
19. cas REF Dallas OTE Caracas 2 TN 1 020 12 1 520 1761 220 2500 278 3280 3508 1780 300 428 darlaa Lehane ikm sunare 4264 ferai engins 431 2 Route Elevations OPCW OffShore Well 05 PJ Hub 15 18 xe 2 omm Wo 1 TH 7 HM 8 1 5 rpli The report contains one or more sheets 10 rpll reporting information on the route position lists The route position lists are established from the lines specified the network configuration ending nodes and the route taken by the lines The first line of the network configuration determines the first sheet of route position list starting node ending node and route positions of the line The second line determine the second sheet etc Route postions that have been reported in a rpl sheet are not reported in the subsequent sheets When a line take a portion of route which has already been reported the associated rpl report 1s limited to the rpl which has not yet been reported a Position geographic attributes Latitude Longitude Geographic coordinates of the position in degree Sphere Distance The distance from the first position in the list measured at the surface of the WGS 84 spheroid Terrain Distance The distance from the first position in the list measured following the terrain elevations Elevation The distance between the terrain and the surface of the WGS 84 spheroid as provided by
20. customisable to various type of networks and geographic information sources This customisation is provided under a dedicated User Configuration file set up by the user 1 1 2 Collaboration Center At one end of the GeoTycoon application is the Collaboration Center that enable the user to teamwork with other GeoTycoon users The User Application requires to sign in the Collaboration Center to deliver full functionality 1 1 3 Geographic Information Source A Geographic Information Source delivers various kind of geographic information such as e Satellite Imagery Blue Marble LANDSAT e Terrain Elevation and Bathymetry ETOPOI GEBCO Thematic Raster Cartography Street maps Thematic Vector Cartography Administrative Boundaries Geological Areas e Points of Interest volcanoes cities Page 4 39 GEOTY COON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 2 User Application Software Installation The GeoTyccon user application runs on a PC with Microsoft Windows XP Vista or 7 The minimum recommended configuration requires 2 Gbytes RAM and a good Internet access 512 kbit s minimum To install the user application on your computer please follow the steps below e Download the application setup file from the GeoTycoon web site e Run the application setup file e Follow the registration steps only in case of first installation e Link the software application to a configuration file 2 e enjoy 2 1 User
21. e value CONTOUR Page 36 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 A B C D E F G DIM ELEVATIONI ELEVATION2 ELEVATION3 ELEVATION4 ELEVATIONS ELEVATION CONTOUR 5 000 2000 3000 0 1004 NodeClassId which must be the identifier of a node object e g geo network oil refinery This parameter forces the reporting of route positions at specific kilometric distances from all interconnected node objects of the type NodeClasslId A B C D E DIM DISTANCEI DISTANCE2 NodeClassId You can define the format of the cells in the rpli and srpli worksheet cf section 8 1 5 page 34 There are three parameters to define the formats RPL TITLE FORMAT to set the formats of the title header of the list the formated cell can also contain a number which indicates the width of the column in number of characters If this number is zero the column will be hidden RPL POINT FORMATS to set the formats of the reported positions as geographic points RPL SPAN FORMATS to set the formats of the reported positions inter spans A B C D E Format Format Format Format column A column B column column D RPL TITLE FORMATS RPL POINT FORMATS RPL SPAN FORMATS You can also specify your own columns in the rpli and srpli worksheet cf section 8 1 5 page 34 RPL CUSTOM COLUMN TITLE to set the titles header of your own RPL columns in the report RPL CUSTOM COLUMN FORMULA to set the content of the colum
22. has expired The color bullet is followed by the user e mail used for the registration in the Collaboration Center the date of expiry when the user will have to register again into the Collaboration Center to continue using the application and into parenthesis the Internet offline time limit allowed 3 2 Network Display Area The Network Display Area is the area where the user can create position and interconnect tthe network objects on the map There are four tabs to access different editor functionalities tab it is the main geographic network editor of the User Application EDIT CONF tab to edit functional network configurations based on sets of geographic network objects with different functional relationships Web Map tab to display the network on top of Google maps in a web browser WW tab to display the network on a WorldWind globe Page 7 39 GEOTY COON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 3 2 1 GEOMAP tab world fits the map next map projection n previous map projection A round zoom level elevations display and isolines zoom in fog control take a snapshot zm ct d demo elevation Parnas mie 2 Z user defined map layers network owe stwork routes size esame ea 28 698Re G CNTRY United States of America United States oil demo Hubl Network display filter AREA country sovereign OBJECT type name D REN
23. ide information on internet connectivity File Tools Help 9 181 ms Q9 geotycoon rocketmail com expire 20 02 2012 offline 29 03 2011 Page 6 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 Internet connectivity status GEOTYCOON 299 46b LH X File Tools xF geotycoon rocketmail com expire 20 02 2012 offline 29 03 2011 e The ping bullet gives an indication on Internet connection quality ping response time A green bullet indicates the internet connectivity is good a red bullet indicates the internet connectivity could not be established In the later case you should check your network access and possibly configure the parameters of the possible network proxy required by your network to access the Internet To configure the network proxy parameters click on the Tools in the top menu bar Collaboration Center status GEOTYCOON 20 2046 Bl _ 8 File Tools Help 18 9 geotycoon rocketmail com expire 20 02 2012 offline 29 03 2011 LET A green bullet indicates the User Application has succesfully signed into the collaboration center An amber bullet indicates the user Application could not sign in because of Internet connectivity issue but it is still in the allowed Collaboration Center offline time period A red bullet indicates the User Application could not sign in because the registration process has to be run again or the allowed offline time period
24. inter connected by the route segment to which the route position belongs e Conveyed lines attributes ShortestLine indicates the length km of the shortest line conveyed through the position LongestLine indicates the length in km of the longest line conveyed through the position LineCount indicates the number of lines conveyed through the position LineList lists the line reference numbers of the lines conveyed through the position Linel lineN An attribute 15 associated with each of the conveyed lines The attribute identifier 15 the line reference A TRUE FALSE attribute value indicates wether the line 1s conveyed through the position or not Construct TRUE FALSE this indicates if the node is part of the actual network TRUE or if it 1s a past future or external reference FALSE f Specific report model formulas The report model may contain the definition of additional attributes calculated by means of formulas applied to other cells of the report The additional attribute identifiers and formulas are Page 35 39 GEOTY COON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 defined by the following report model parameters RPL CUSTOM COLUMN TITLE RPL CUSTOM COLUMN FORMULA and RPL CUSTOM COLUMN ONLYFOR as further described in section 8 2 Report parameters 8 1 6 srpli The srpli sheet is a shorter version of its sibling sheet rpli The positions are provided only for the main route positions defining the route and specific e
25. k Model Definition Type the type or category of the node as defined by the uinickname of the node object in the network model cf chapter 6 Network Model Definition Page 32 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 Name the local name of the node given par the User b Node geographic attributes C Connectivity attributes d Contruction attributes Construct TRUE FALSE this indicates if the node is part of the actual network TRUE or if it is a past future or external reference FALSE e Specific object model attributes AttributeId1 AttributeValuel AttributeId2 AttributeValue2 AttributeIdN AttributeValueN The sequence of information attributes identifiers and values as declared by the object model cf section 6 1 1 geo object attributes f Specific report model formulas The report model may contain the definition of additional attributes calculated by means of formulas applied to other cells of the report The additional attribute identifiers and formulas defined by the following report model parameters NODES CUSTOM COLUMN TITLE NODES CUSTOM COLUMN FORMULA and NODES CUSTOM COLUMN FORMULA2 as further described in section 8 2 Report parameters 8 1 4 DIAGRAM The DIAGRAM sheet contains the schematic of the reported network configuration and the route elevation profile for each route position list RPL Page 33 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 Route Elevations OTK Cara
26. n width 30 height 30 where the url indicates the location of the files containing the elevation data according to an xy tile index the width indicates the number of longitude degrees covered by each file and the height indicates the number of latitude degrees covered by each file Both width and height shall be a divider of 180 The url of the files shall contain two indexes one for the longitude 1 and one for the latitude 2 d The longitude index ranges from 0 to 360 longitudeWidthInDegrees and the latitude index ranges from 0 to 180 latitudeHeightInDegrees 7 2 tiles A tiles source provide images of the globe surface according to a zoom level For a given zoom Page 25 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 level z the earth is divided in 4 z equally sized tiles of 360 2 z longitude width and 180 2 z latitude height When the GEOMAP will display a specific earth area the application will fetch the image tiles covering the area for the associated zoom level by calling a user defined javascript function that will return tiles url according to tile selected tileset zoom level x and y coordinates of the tiles The x coordinate corresponds to the longitude index of the tile and y coordinate coresponds to the latitude index of the tile in the 0 360 2 z 180 2 z earth tiles division As an exemple for the zoom level z 2 we will have the following earth tile division in x y indexes
27. n for each point or span of the RPL It is an Excel formula which should refer to other cells of the report RPL CUSTOM COLUMN ONLYFOR indicates 1s the column shall be applied to points or spans The value of this parameter shall be either POINT or SPAN You can define your own columns in the lines worksheet Cf section 8 1 1 LINES page 31 Page 37 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 LINES CUSTOM COLUMN TITLE to set the titles header of your own columns in the lines report LINES CUSTOM COLUMN FORMULA to set the content of the cells in the column It is an Excel formula which should refer to other cells of the report LINES CUSTOM COLUMN FORMULA2 to set the content of the cells the second row each line has two rows this enables to implement the Excel database functions It is an Excel formula which should refer to other cells of the report You can define your own columns in the nodes worksheet Cf section 8 1 3 NODES page 32 NODES CUSTOM COLUMN TITLE to set the titles header of your own columns in the nodes report NODES CUSTOM COLUMN FORMULA to set the content of the cells in the column It is an Excel formula which should refer to other cells of the report NODES CUSTOM COLUMN FORMULAOA to set the content of the cells in the second row each node has two rows this enables to implement the Excel database functions It is an Excel formula which should refer to other cells of the rep
28. node objects connected to route positions Connections Manage Connections PJ oil dema Hub3 oil demo Little Rock ail demo Hubl b Route Position List Route Position List 22 Edit the route position coordinates Page 12 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 Route Position List Edit Length km 968 4 Latitude Elevation Connection Apply 38 032880 89 585110 148 PJ Hub3 36 167610 90 821380 al 35135930 92 959790 123 35 116420 92 969130 94 PJ Little Rock 33 474130 93 909770 83 31 881980 96 549290 115 PJ Hubl Route Profile k Route Profile Display the route elevations profile as a graph Route Profile Route Elevations P Hub3 PJ Hubi LIE Toor 400 E 300 E n 1 200 hr Ts Bm Tan m APUL TE 100 Li kad Lora m T E MESES PS Se aa Fae ee ee N a ERU E ERE Sl Faia 1 aaa aE ae rarer Sa a Lx 100 200 300 400 200 700 SOC 1 000 Surface Distance km surface length 968 terrain length 966 Route Slopes PJ Hub3 PJ Hub1 10 qu EL ci D 100 200 300 400 500 800 700 800 a00 1 000 9 surface Distance km Page 13 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT 07 3 4 3 Properties of node objects a Coordinates t Coordinates Coordinates Edit Latitude Longitude Elevation 35116420 92 969130 94 b
29. ntext o north o northeast o east o southeast o south o southwest So west o northwest 1 The second value is the SVG attribute identifier 2 The third value is the attribute value 6 3 8 ConfReport attribute Summary Boolean routeMark When listing a route position the report manager indicates for each position interval the uinickname of the surrounding preceding and succeding nodes for which the routeMark 1s set to true Page 23 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 7 Geographic Information Sources The geographic information sources provide information relatively to geographic coordinates which can be displayed as underlays to the network diagram and which are used to feed the network configuration reports The layered sources are defined by the entry map layers in the Content Definition File map layers layerld1 layerId2 layerld3 Each of the layerld listed shall itself be referenced in the Content Definition File with a reference to predefined layer types at its root value The different types of geographic information sources are e dted digital terrain elevation data meant for delivering terrain elevation for given latitute longitude coordinates e tiles raster tile images to be displayed on the map Starting from zoom level 2 0 the world map is divided at each zoom level in 2 2z images each image covering an area of 360
30. ork objects route positions and route crossings layerId name Political Boundaries Define the default information when a coordinates point 15 outside all areas layerId outside international To define the icon of the layer activation button in the GEOMAP display set the following entry layerId icon politics boundaries gif To define the tool tip text of the layer activation button when mouse hovers it in the GEOMAP display set the following entry layerId tooltip Administrative Boundaries For each area set listed in the layerld areas entry the following entries shall de defined The type of input data that define the areas and their attributes is determined by the entry type The type shapefile identifies ESRI shapefile areaId1 type shapefile To define the name of the area set as it will appear on the Application user interface arealdl name Country To define the name of the area set as it will appear in the reports Page 28 39 GEOTY COON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO7 areaId1 sname CNTRY To credit the source of the information arealdl source United Nations To set the color of the area contour RGB hexadecimal format arealdl linecolor B2A170 To set the location of the ESRI shapefile arealdl shape politics areas total area090110104237 shp To set the location of the associated ESRI attributes database the dBASE format arealdl data politics areas
31. ort Page 38 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 9 Lexical Index Index lexical Global Collaboration Center secssssessesese e nenne eene eene ee trenere testne sea seres ases sa ase sa ass pasa sais 2 Conrenc Debmitremn o 3p 9 Page 39 39
32. t an oil well a refinery route position a geographical route which interconnects nodes and is defined by geographic way points and the interconnected nodes route a geographical route which is defined by a sequence of route position and intermediate nodes to go through line a featured path in the network More information on the definition of network models can be found at section 6 Network Model Definition page 18 More information on how to edit a network can be found at section 3 User Application Sofware GUI Basics page 6 1 1 Organisation of the application The application is organised around three entities The Users you accessing the GeoTycoon functionality through the User Application software running on their personal computer The Collaboration Center which enables teamwork and delivers online support The Geographic Information Sources which are delivered by third parties and enable the Users to design their network around the geographic information Page 3 39 GEOTY COON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 INTERNET 1 1 1 User Application and Configuration The User you interfaces with GeoTycoon through a local software application User Application that is installed on the user s computer The basic role the the User Application is to enable the user to edit the geographic network over geographical information and to publish network reports This User Application 1s
33. total area090110104237 dbf To set the names of the attributes to report on the user interface and the network configuration reports for the attributes of interest in the attributes database These attribute names are not necessarily those of the database header arealdl attributesName name sovereign To indicate the attribute index associated with each attribute name the database starting with 0 as the index of the first attribute areaIdl attributesIndex 1 2 In this example the attribute name is the second attribute in the attribute list and the attribute sovereign is the third attribute 7 5 polylines 7 6 locations Locations are points of interest on the map To define the layer layerId as of type areas set the following entry layerId locations List the locations set from top to bottom by setting the layerId locations entry layerId locations layerIdO layerIdl layerIG2 To define the of the layer activation button in the GEOMAP display set the following entry layerId icon S politics cities gif To define the tool tip text of the layer activation button when mouse hovers it in the GEOMAP display set the following entry layerId tooltip Cities To define the structure of the layerIdO location database set the following entry the currently supported type is csv comma separated value Page 29 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT ED07 layerId0 type csv
34. ue of the attribute in a formpat compatible with the classz 6 3 3 GenericGraphics Attribute Summary String iconl6 The URL of a 16x16 pixels image that represents the objet in the editor outline and the action menu items String icon32 The URL of a 32x32 pixels image Double displayScale An array of scaling factors that are applied to the display graphic depending on the zoom level of the earth globe First value in the array corresponds to zoom level 0 second value to zoom level 1 etc A scaling factor of 1 is applied to the display graphic when the zoom level is beyond the size of the array Page 21 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 Integer displayMask This allows the user to hide unhide the graphic according to the displayMask rank When the displayMask value 15 higher than the display mask set by the user on the editor toolbar the display graphic 15 hidden Integer displayLayer The displayLayer value indicate if the display graphic lays on the front or on the back of other displayImage objects A display graphic with a high displayLayer value 16 displayed on top of other display graphics with lower value WebGraphics webgraphics Describes the display of the object in the WebMap editor SvgGraphics svggraphics Describes the display of the object in the Network Configuration editor 6 3 4 WebGraphics Attribute Summary
35. uemarble zoom tx ty 1 var url scriptBaseURL 7 BM m FOON A V E Foon stp pet xe usps peru Sul 7 3 mazetiles A mazetile source provides globe surface images to be displayed on the GEOMAP The User Application calls a javascript function specified by the User getURLs map zoom north west south east which shall return a list of images in gif jpeg or png format for display Each image 15 returned with the following parameters url the location of the image north the top latitude boundary of the image west the left longitude boundary of the image south the bottom latitude boundary of the image east the right longitude boundary of the image To define the layer layerld as of type tiles set the following entry layerId mazetiles To define the of the layer activation button in the GEOMAP display set the following entry layerId icon S physics dted elev gif To define the tool tip text of the layer activation button when mouse hovers it in the GEOMAP display set the following entry layerId tooltip Map MazeTiles To define the javascript to be invoked to retrieve the list of possible mazetile sets and the image urls set the following entry layerId javascript tiles mazemaptiles js The javascript shall contain the two following functions function sourceList return tilesetl tileset2 tilesetN function getURLs tileset zoom north west south east 1
36. value pairs identifierl valuel identifier2 value2 the values valuel value2 are described in JSON syntax For the user application there are only two predefined identifier entries e network javascript this entry indicates the location of the network models to be used by the application cf Network Model Definition The value of this entry shall be a JSON array of strings Each string in the array is an URL to a Network Model Definition javascript The URL can be located on a remote server accessible via http e g http www models org mymodel js or located on the local computer file C models mymodel js The use of a at the beginning of the URL refers to the base URL of the Content Definition File so the location of the Network Model Definition be provided relatively to the configuration file location mymodel js For instance if the configuration file is located at http www models org myconf cfeg the location mymodel js is translated into http www models org mymodel js e map layers this entry indicates the geographic information sources to be used and Page 16 39 GEOTY COON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 displayed by the application cf Geographic Information Sources The value of this entry shall be a JSON array of strings Each string in the array 15 a reference to a geographic layer identifier which shall itself be declared inside the configuration file Page 17 39
37. vents such as area crossings elevation contours It does not contain all the intermediate route positions interpolated from the report parameter RPL MAXSPAN 8 2 Report parameters The Excel file report model shall contain a worksheet named PARAMETERS This worksheet shall contain the parameters described below The parameters identifiers shall be provided in the first column of the worksheet column A For some parameters the identifier 1s followed by a number in the second column column that indicates the number of values DIM making up the parameter DIAGRAM SIZE indicates the size of the diagram images reported under the DIAGRAM worksheet A B C D DIM height width DIAGRAM SIZE 2 450 1500 RPL MAXSPAN this parameter indicates the maximum span in kilometers to interpolate positions between two route positions in the reporting of the route positions in worksheets rpli cf section 8 1 5 page 34 For instance if two subsequent route positions are distant for more than RPL MAXSPAN kilometers then intermediate route positions are reported at consecutive distances of RPL MAXSPAN kilometers A B C DIM SPAN km RPL MAXSPAN 1 1 ELEVATION CONTOUR this parameter forces the reporting of crossings of the routes with the specified elevation contours The route positions of the crossings are reported in the corresponding rpli worksheet cf section 8 1 5 page 34 with the attribute ConnectionType set to th
38. ws to export geographic network information into configuration reports This functionality is accessible from the Network Configuration Editor 3 2 2 EDIT CONF tab The currently support report format 15 Microsoft Excel The User Application takes a Report Model as an input and issue a report based on such input model for the selected configuration Report Model Generated Report 8 1 Report sheets 8 1 1 LINES This sheet lists all the network lines defined under the network configuration The lines are listed with the following attributes a Line identification attributes Ref a unique integer number to identify the line Class the class name of the line as defined by the id of the line object in the network model cf chapter 6 Network Model Definition Type the type or category of the line as defined by the uinickname of the line object in the network model cf chapter 6 Network Model Definition Name the local name of the line given par the User b Connectivity attributes line terminating nodes tapping EndARef the reference to the node where the line starts the unique integer number referencing the node Page 31 39 GEOTYCOON 2 USER MANUAL DRAFT EDO07 EndAType the type of the node where the line starts as defined by the uinickname of the node object in the network model cf chapter 6 Network Model Definition EndAName the local name of the node given by the User where
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