This enhancement exposes any WMTS "time" dimensions for use in the
temporal framework, including allowing these layers to be animated
and controlled via the temporal controller.
There's some complexity involved here, because the WMTS specification
does NOT dictate how a time dimension should be exposed by services.
So different WMTS services are all handling this in different ways,
and we need to try to be as tolerant as possible.
Specifically, WMTS dimension values are just free-form strings, so
I've encountered a range of datetime formats -- e.g. "2021", "20210203",
"2021-02-03", "2021-02-03T12:13:14Z", and even WMS(T) style time
period designations ("2021-01-03T12:13:14/2021-01-05T12:15:11/P10M")!
These different formats all need special handling in order to correctly
interpret them as a date time value, and to be able to re-encode
an arbitrary datetime value back to the format string required
by the service. It's highly likely that we'll encounter additional
format strings when this feature is rolled out, and we'll need to
handle each individually.
When we do detect a time dimension on a WMTS layer, we no longer
expose this in the same way as other non-time dimensions. The browser
panel does not show the dimension values, and adding the layer
via Data Source Manager no longer prompts the user to pick from
the available time values. Instead, these layers are indicated with
a new "time capable raster layer" icon, and are added to a project
WITHOUT the user picking a specific time value.
Just like a WMS(T) layer, when a time-dimension enabled WMTS layer
is added to the project, it will default to the "automatic" temporal
mode, meaning that the layer will follow the temporal controller's
current time range by default. A user can then opt to show a specific
static time value for the layer through the layer's Temporal properties
page, by unchecking "Dynamic Temporal Control" and picking a specific
available time range from the "Predefined date" option. (Basically,
the user interaction and experience with a WMTS time enabled layer
is identical to with a WMS(T) layer).
Fixes#48364
using a fill symbol below the elevation surface
This can be easier to interpret in some cases, and helps match expected
symbology conventions in certain disciplines.
This class implements an optimised method for generating a profile
from a raster layer in a thread-safe way:
On the main thread:
- The data provider is cloned during preparation, and all other
required properties from the raster layer are copied and stored
for later thread-safe use on a background thread
On the background thread:
- The profile line is transformed to the raster's native CRS
- We then iterate over the portion of the raster which intersects
the profile line's bounding box in small tiles. We use small tiles
here as we will shortcut by skipping straight over any tiles which
don't intersect the profile line at all, without requesting their
raster data at all. Since the profile line will only cover a very
small portion of an overall raster extent, by using small tiles
we end up shortcutting and avoiding the costly tile pixel iteration
for most of the raster's coverage.
- For any tiles which DO intersect the profile curve, we fetch the
tile data and then iterate over the pixels, keeping only those
which actually intersect the profile curve. These pixel centroids
are then transformed back to the original CRS of the profile line.
- After collecting the filtered pixels centroids and their raster
(height) values, we then convert the pixel x/y locations to a
distance/chainage along the profile line, giving us an array of
distance vs height values for all pixels which intersect the profile
line.
Allows elevation properties to be set for vector layers, including:
- altitude binding
- altitude clamping
- extrusion
- scale
- offset
These properties can be set through the new "Elevation" tab in
the vector layer properties dialog
Allows elevation properties to be set for raster layers, including:
- whether raster values represent heights
- scale
- offset
These properties can be set through the new "Elevation" tab in
the raster layer properties dialog
