Developer Reference Index

This section provides a technical reference guide for developers in order that they may utilise the power of iShare within their websites. This guide covers the following:

• Address Search Methods - web service methods to allow customers to perform an address search on any web page

• Configure MapServer to be a WMS or WFS Server

• Creating your MyCouncil page - steps to create your MyCouncil iShare web page

• Embedding Maps - describes how to embed maps in your own web pages using iShare Spotlight, iShare Lite & iShare Solo

• GetData Web Service

  • LocalInfo Data Request - to stream GeoRSS, XML or JSON from iShare - XML & JSON from version 5.0.4 only

  • Address Search Request - AJAX or JSONP

  • Data Share Data Request - to query the Data Share database

  • HTML to PDF Request - web service to create a pdf document for the property information in My House

  • Return a list of Print Templates - return a list of the Print Templates in the web folder

  • GetData Response Headers - it is now possible to add arbitrary headers to responses from GetData

• Interacting with the Map - basic description of the different ways of using iShare to integrate maps within a website

• iShare Data Flow Overview - a diagram illustrating how data is used in iShare

• iShare Plugins for Developers - iShare GIS has a plugin system which allows you to add buttons and dialogues for custom functionality. Data Share has a Dynamic datasource, which is a python plugin, that allows you to retrieve data when a page is loaded so no local copy is held in the Data Share database

• Linking to My Maps - a simple means of calling the iShare My Maps interface from other web pages

• My Alerts Web Services - web service for My Alerts

• OGC Services (WMS/WFS) - using the GetOWS.ashx endpoint to supply WMS or WFS to desktop GIS tools such as MapInfo Professional and QGIS to easily view the data. 

• Print to PDF Configuration – how to create your own print templates

• RSS Controls - to add your own local information RSS feeds to your web site pages

• SOAP Web Services - there are two SOAP web services for use with iShare Maps and iShare GIS –  Locate and Lookup

• Styling iShare Popups

• Virtual Layer tags – pass information such as postcode, easting, northing etc.

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