editing/adding/removing features should be part of the presentation layer but, here, I do not propose to build a complete GIS presentation layer
I just propose to provide a technical toolkit to be able to insert OpenLayers in Plone templates, which would be used by any presentation layer involving OL (because the needs might be very differents: some want a content-type to display a map, others want to manage geo-aware Plone objects, and others want to build an AT geo widget) so I do not think it would be productive to try to build a generic OL-based GIS presentation layer for Plone In my case for instance, I use OL to create or edit geometry, and I call zgeo.wfs to save and index the resulting geometry directly in Zope, but we could imagine another solution where the geometry is also created and modified using OL but stored in an AT field and sent to PostGIS (for instance) as a WKT string but, whatever is your architecture, in any case, you will still need to make Plone able to load and use the OL Javascript library, so that's the objective of my initial proposal see? Eric BREHAULT On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Jan van der Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric, > > > Part of the presentation layer is editing and adding and removing content, > right? > > > Kind regards, > > > Jan > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Bréhault > Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 09:42 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; gispython.org community projects > Subject: Re: [Community] OpenLayers in Plone 3 > > > > PrimaGIS provides the ability to manage MapServer from Plone, and also to > display a map in Plone (using OpenLayers by the way in the Plone version I > think). > > Here what we propose is just to provide OpenLayers in Plone, so just the GIS > client technical intergration aspects (basically a skin containing OL + some > nice macro to insert and configure OL from PT templates). Nothing about the > GIS server-side. Nothing about the spatial information data model or > storage. > > The idea is to provide an unified OL integration technical toolkit that > could be used for instance by PrimaGIS, EryrOL, PleiadesOL, or any other > Plone product that may need OL. > > Eric BREHAULT > > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:55 AM, Alex Mandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Moisan Yves wrote: > > > -Translation to Dutch. > > > > > > And French too, but with Éric on board that's no problem. > > > > > > As an aside, I noticed the folks at OpenPlans are apparently going to > provide some map viewing/editing capabilities (GeoServer I assume) in their > OpenCore software. OpenCore is Plone (and a couple of other FOSS parts), > though I'm not sure which version. It may be a good idea to bounce an email > to Chris Holmes about an OL integration to Plone 3. > > > > > > Yves > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Community mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > > OpenPlans is plone 2.5. I haven't peeked at what their planning now > > but last I looked they had tinkered with Prima 0.5 and decided to > > wait on an easier solution. > > > > I'm in to help although I'm not terribly familiar with the inner > > workings of Plone 3 yet. (Book to be ordered soon) > > > > One question for clarification, how does this idea differ from the > > PrimaGIS mindset? > > > > Alex > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Community mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > _______________________________________________ > Community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.3/1392 - Release Date: 22-Apr-2008 > 15:51 > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.4/1394 - Release Date: 23-Apr-2008 > 19:16 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community
