hi Roald, OLON is an internal object for OL that represent the map status. Once the map is inside the OLON object it's just a matter of writing import/export function for as many standards we want.
ciao Lorenzo Roald de Wit wrote: > Hi, > > Just throwing my 2 cents in here (from the side-line): > > Both OLON and OWS are not OGC standards, although OWS might become one. > The OLON implementation is nearly complete (I presume) and the OWS one > is not (I presume too). > > I'm curious what is missing in the OWS spec and/or implementation that > is needed to be able to store and manipulate a complete status of the > map, needed for this SOC project. > > What path is preferred: the more flexible and close to home (OLON) or > the more standards based but limited (OWS) one? > > My gut feeling now is: choose OLON and if we want an OWS import/export, > one can build upon Lorenzo's work in the (near) future and maybe use > OLON as an intermediate form. > > Roald > > On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 06:50 +0930, Cameron Shorter wrote: > >> I'm not sure if Erik has caught up with others on IRC yet. >> He needs to assess how much work is required for OLON and whether >> getting OLON up to scratch will eat up all his time so that he can't >> focus on the core of his work. >> >> Tim, Lorenzo, you may be able to help answer this? >> >> Lorenzo Becchi wrote: >> >>> Hi Cameron, >>> Erik is welcome. >>> I can help for a part of the job but not for all of it. >>> OLON is an idea of Tim Schaub (CCed) and he's opinion would be important >>> to avoid to choose a closed road. >>> The development of OWS Manager is actually frozen and I have no idea >>> when/if will go on. >>> >>> ciao >>> Lorenzo >>> >>> >>> >>> Cameron Shorter wrote: >>> >>> >>>> I've been chatting with Erik Hazzard, Google Summer of Code Student >>>> and discovered that he doesn't believe he has been allocated a mentor. >>>> >>>> He is working on an "Openlayers Map Creation Application Toolkit". >>>> Basically a click and drag builder of map widgets. >>>> >>>> My initial suggestion feeling was that this could be built with >>>> Mapbuilder, but Andrea has pointed out that OLON would probably be a >>>> better bet. >>>> >>>> Who can help mentoring Erik, especially with the OLON work? >>>> >>>> I can help out with general direction, but am out of my depth on the >>>> technical part. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >> _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
