Eric Bréhault wrote: > Hello, > > We are happy to announce you we have just released zgeo.wfs. > > zgeo.wfs provides an adapter to turn any Plone 3 folder into a WFS service. > It allows to publish Plone geo-refrenced objects to any WFS compliant > client like for instance OpenLayers which can be easily integrated in > Plone. > It allows to combine spatial and attributes criterias for filtering. > > It also supports WFS-T, so Plone objects geometry can be created or > modified directly from the client. > > Using zgeo.wfs and OpenLayers, you can build a 100% Plone-based GIS > application easily (no need of Mapserver, PostGIS, etc...). > > Here is a demo site containing 2 simple applications using zgeo.wfs: > http://plone.demo.makina-corpus.net/plonegis > Those 2 GIS applications have been built entirely through-the-web, we > have just installed Plomino, zgeo.wfs and epwithgis (which is not > released at the moment but will be soon) on Plone site, and we have > designed everything from the Plone web interface. > The flexibility of this architecture makes possible to build a > complete GIS application (geometry storage, rendering, attributes > management, spatial + attributes filtering, etc.) in a very small > amount of time with almost no development. > > Any comments/questions/feedbacks are welcome. > > Best regards, > > Eric BREHAULT > Makina Corpus > www.makina-corpus.com
Hi Eric, The demo looks good. I have a few comments about the zgeo.wfs code: If you could factor the plone dependencies into a zgeo.plone.wfs package, a zgeo.wfs package depending only on Zope (3) could be potentially useful to an organization like OpenGeo, which uses Zope and Grok but not Plone. Eventually IGeoCollection will be eliminated from zgeo.geographer.interfaces, and the sooner you prepare for this the better. I recommend that you add the features iterator into your own IWebFeatureService interface and not subclass IGeoCollection. Recently I met with Dominic Lowe and Stephan Pascoe at the British Atmospheric Data Center and was introduced to a project called COWS. It's a Pylons-based OWS implementation with code that may be useful to you: http://proj.badc.rl.ac.uk/ndg/browser/cows. Cheers, Sean _______________________________________________ Community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gispython.org/mailman/listinfo/community
