Depts

Updated the site, which took three tries because of one invalid XML file, and then an HTML file that was broken.

The designer had embedded the OpenLayers map directly in the home page using an iframe, which of course borked all the document links. I've now fixed that, although I'm not 100% happy with how it's working; I still need to find a way to maximize the use of space in the standalone version. Meanwhile, lots of troubleshooting for the two remote workers with Oxygen. Not being able to train people directly is problematic.

Worked a bit with VB, and his pages are now all valid; he has a couple more years' worth to build, but we're basically on track. Next I need to create an editing project for KB, which will involve porting his existing data over to the repo.

Got the list of students and poems from AC and built the teaching package. I optimize it a bit every time I do it. Will test the download in the lab tomorrow.

Asked to build the site urgently for a presentation, I discovered that there were a lot of problems with the HTML pages; apparently the person editing them isn't using a validating editor, and I had to make a bunch of changes before I was able to get it to build. I also discovered that a bunch of bootstrap code was still included, although the word was that it wouldn't be, and lots of images have been added, so I had to tweak the build script to get it to run. Was able to do it eventually, but this process is far from ideal; we need to lay out some ground rules for freezes and release dates, as well as making sure that everyone editing the code understands how to validate a page.

Interspersed with this, attended two workstudy interviews with PB.

I had missed the fact that FF spun off a separate branch to develop his CSS, and hasn't been keeping it up to date with the master branch; DH now wants those changes merged into the master branch, but of course they're incompatible because I've reworked a lot of stuff for the language-splitting. I made a start, merging the CSS changes to html.css, only to discover that the evil JQuery had been invoked simply in order to hide and show some divs by clicking on an SVG map. Rewrote the JavaScript, which turned out to be no longer without JQuery than it was with, so that's sorted. However, the new site design is also dependent on a Bootstrap CSS file which is pretty horrendous -- minified and invalid, so really difficult to work with. I don't know where we go from here, but we don't want a massive Bootstrap file most of which we don't need...

I've completed the transformation which splits the HTML into two language sets, covering all the requirements previously listed. This was quite complicated because I wanted to retain only one set of resources (js, css etc.), so all those links had to be rewritten. In the process, I've also fixed a couple of bugs in the map, so that the direct linking to places and to postal codes via the query string is now functional.

I've implemented about half of the language-splitting functionality, so far without major problems. What remains to be done is to tidy up the handling of the map page, because it has embedded JavaScript which is getting processed wrongly. Other tweaks needed are the trimming of the document index pages so that they only contain links to the right documents. Then the original html pages have to be removed from the tree.

I've found a few good resources for map tiles.
The CRD takes aerial photos every two years and makes them available as WMS layers. Add 2015 to an OL4 map:

//CRD
        layerCRD = new ol.layer.Tile({
          //extent: extent,
          source: new ol.source.TileWMS({
            url: 'https://mapservices.crd.bc.ca/arcgis/services/Ortho2015/MapServer/WMSserver',
            //crossOrigin: 'anonymous',
            params: {
              'LAYERS': '5',
              'FORMAT': 'image/png',
              'SRS': 'EPSG:3857'
            },
            serverType: 'mapserver'
          })
        });

The BC Government also provides aerial/satelite tiles

layerBCWMS = new ol.layer.Tile({
          //extent: extent,
          source: new ol.source.TileWMS({
            url: 'https://openmaps.gov.bc.ca/lzt/ows/',
            crossOrigin: 'anonymous',
            params: {
              'LAYERS': '140',
              'FORMAT': 'image/png',
              'SRS': 'EPSG:3857'
            },
            serverType: 'mapserver'
          })
        });

and map tiles, too

layerBC = new ol.layer.Tile({
          source: new ol.source.XYZ({
            url: 'http://maps.gov.bc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/province/web_mercator_cache/MapServer/tile/{z}/{y}/{x}',
            numZoomLevels: 18,
            maxZoom: 17
          })
        });

Licensing is (as of October 2017) quite liberal.

This is required for the conference map, and useful overall. Need to restrict the content model of placeName to prevent their use there, though.