On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:26:09PM -0000, OpenSpace wrote: > Hi OpenLayers Team > > Tomorrow Ordnance Survey (Britain's national mapping agency) is letting > a group of developers preview a new mapping API named OS OpenSpace. We > aim to launch this to the public in January. We have used OpenLayers as > a base for the API and have really enjoyed the opportunity to work with > such a comprehensive library. > We just wanted to say thanks to all you guys for building such a > fantastic library.
Hello OpenSpace Team, We're glad to hear that you've found the library fantastic to work with, and it's good to see that OpenLayers has, for the most part, filled the requirements you have for it. Some of the things that you developed are thigns we're working on improving for our next release: for example, as of the past 48 hours, the trunk of OpenLayers now has the ability to use custom transformations to reproject data, and we're working on extending that to apply to various formats and classes in the OpenLayers API. Hopefully this will let OpenSpace and other activities like it move forward more easily in the future. We'd love to be able to make it easier to work with OpenLayers for you in the future, so that you can have to maintain less of your own code, and it would also be good to share experiences with some of the core OpenLayers development team, so that we can share insights that might not otherwise be obvious. Lack of documentation is the bane of so many open source projects existence, and OpenLayers is no exception, despite our best efforts. Based on the website, the service is now in closed alpha: I know that I personally would be interested in being able to explore the API and see what things we might be able to help with, and I think that other developers would feel the same. Is there any likelihood of adding OpenLayers developers to the alpha to help explore these possibilities, or is the plan to keep the current alpha closed as it is, and work hard on moving towards a broader release in early next year? In any case, thank you for the notice, and we look forward to seeing and hearing more. Best Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt OpenLayers Developer _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
