Hey- This looks great!
My only other comment is that the "Why MapFish instead of OpenLayers?" question is a bit odd. Seems sort of like asking "Why sandwich instead of bread?" Tim Eric Lemoine wrote: > Hi OpenLayers dev! > > The Camptocamp team will soon be releasing the first version of MapFish > (previously known as CartoWeb 4). Before the official (user) release, we want > to make MapFish available to developers, and in particular to the OpenLayers > dev community. > > Keep in mind that this isn't a release, there's still things to be done, > including documentation and bug fixing. > > MapFish aims to be an easy-to-use and extensible web GIS application. MapFish > is composed of two parts: MapFish Client and MapFish Server. MapFish Client is > based on OpenLayers. > > For MapFish Client we've decided to move away from Dojo and use Ext [1] > instead > as the GUI framework. We're quite pleased with this change, Ext gives us > satistaction in many respects: features, look and feel, documentation. > Our move to Ext isn't complete yet. > > MapFish Server currently provides Python code based on gispython.org [2] > Shapely and GeoJSON. The MapFishSample code base provides examples on > how to use MapFish Server's Python code. MapFishSample uses the Pylons > framework [3], with SQLAlchemy [4] as the ORM. With MapFish Server, we > plan to build a a complete webmapping framework based on Pylons. Note > also that MapFish Server aims to be RESTful and as compatible as > possible with FeatureServer. > > You can visit <http://www.mapfish.org> to know more about MapFish, check out > our demos, access the download page, register to the trac, register to the > mailing lists, etc. > > We're looking forward to your feedback, > > [1] <http://extjs.com/> > [2] <http://gispython.org/> > [3] <http://pylonshq.com/> > [4] <http://www.sqlalchemy.org/> > > -- > The MapFish dev team > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > !DSPAM:4033,47262f97161502092453641! > _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
