Cameron, Thanks for the heads up on this. I am very interested in working with Erik. Erik, please drop me a line with a brief summary of your thoughts on this. Is the plan simply for a parser, or is the development of a standard part of this? Also, are you on this mailing list (openlayers-dev), and if not, could you join it? I think it would be useful to have this dialog on the listserv, although Cameron, Bart, others, you may disagree.
Justs an FYI, I don't see Erik's name on the SummerOfCode wiki entry (http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/SummerOfCode), nor a description of the project, unless I am missing it (quite possible). BTW - Bart, I did not receive a copy of your email. No clue as to why. Maybe the MicroSized firewall here at work filters out anything with OS in the senders name! Tim - I am thinking that looking into OLON would be a good starting point. However, I wonder where that fits in with Erik's plans. Looking forward to hearing from any and all, r.b. Robert W. Burgholzer Surface Water Modeler Office of Water Supply and Planning Virginia Department of Environmental Quality [EMAIL PROTECTED] 804-698-4405 Open Source Modeling Tools: http://sourceforge.net/projects/npsource/ -----Original Message----- From: Cameron Shorter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:43 PM To: Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) Cc: Burgholzer,Robert; [email protected]; Erik Hazzard Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Dev] auto-generating OpenLayers javascript Erik Hazard is a Google Summer of Code student who is interested in this work. I suggest you touch base with him and work synergies between you. Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote: > Hi Robert, > > you can use OpenLayers.Format.WMC (Web Map Context) for this purpose, > although it's pretty much limited to OpenLayers.Layer.WMS. > > If you need other types, you could look at the OWS Context specification > by OGC, but there is no OL code currently for this format. Mapbuilder > does have code for this IIRC. > > Best regards, > Bart > > Burgholzer,Robert wrote: > >> I am interested in developing a parser that would take a block of XML >> describing a map view (maybe SLD notation?) and turn it into >> OpenLayers javascript code. Once I have done this, I would like to >> turn it into a WordPress plugin, so that maps can be dynamically added >> to blogs, real, custom maps that is. The things I think I need to >> know before starting this are: >> >> >> >> 1. Is there already something out there that does this? >> 2. What format is considered the best standard, SLD, or some other? >> 3. Is this interesting to others as well? >> >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> >> >> Robert W. Burgholzer >> >> Surface Water Modeler >> >> Office of Water Supply and Planning >> >> Virginia Department of Environmental Quality >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> 804-698-4405 >> >> Open Source Modeling Tools: >> >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/npsource/ >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev >> >> > > > -- Cameron Shorter Geospatial Systems Architect Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 Think Globally, Fix Locally Commercial Support for Geospatial Open Source Solutions http://www.lisasoft.com/LISAsoft/SupportedProducts.html _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
