Welcome! And thanks for your praise, on behalf of all who have worked on
GeoServer.
That's great you get to join the community with this contract. And OpenLS
would be a cool improvement to have as modules on GeoServer. Are you doing
all of the OpenLS services? Or just a subset? I feel like there's five or
six, though I'm not sure if they're all useful. I think the most
interesting ones to a wider audience are geocoding and routing. Both very
big topics in themselves, with lots of potential for innovation. My one
naive advice is to be sure to keep your specification implementation nice
and orthogonal to the backend, so that other developers can experiment with
different implementations but all be able to easily meet the OpenLS spec
requirements.
Also, are you looking at OpenTripPlanner at all?
http://opentripplanner.org/They do some really nice routing in pure
java, and they make use of
GeoTools already. I've long wanted some nice integration in GeoServer. I
don't believe they implement OpenLS though.
All your community work thus far is right on. And yeah, getting a
contributor agreement to OpenPlans would be good, but not required at this
point. I need to look in to some others that people have sent in (I am at
OpenPlans). When you do mail it if you could also email me a scan of it
that could be helpful.
Definitely do write up your design thoughts to the list. I'm not sure if
anyone will sound in, but it will no matter what be useful for any future
developers who might be interested in contributing to OpenLS, to see what
you were thinking when you built it. I'm also curious what RFC59 is, I
couldn't find any reference online to it.
But yeah, stay in touch with the list, keep us updated on your plans and
progress.
best regards,
Chris
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Ugo Paternostro <ugo.paternos...@phoops.it
> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I've been following discussions in the list for a while now, and I would
> like to introduce myself, my company and our projects, but first let me
> congratulate with you all for the valuable piece of software that
> GeoServer is!
>
> My name is Ugo Paternostro, and I'm co-founder and co-owner of phoops
> s.r.l., an Italy based small business whose customers mainly are public.
>
> BTW, this made me meet some of you in person (Simone, do you remember
> Tolomeo classes in Prato?).
>
> We deal often with open source software, and in the last months we
> acquired a contract from one of our public customer to develop OpenLS
> services in GeoServer.
>
> One of the contract constraints is that the develop have not to be a
> GeoServer fork, but has to integrate with the community work.
>
> So, this is what led we here. I would like to summarize what we did so far:
>
> 1. we forked geoserver repo in GitHub (guess it? It's phoops/geoserver);
>
> 2. we created a branch on our repo for our developing, named 12I_CPO_TP
> from the internal project code;
>
> 3. we started the creation of a framework for the OpenLS services that,
> at the moment, includes the ols, ols_web and ols-RFC59 projects, all
> under the community module.
>
> Please note that the project is in a very embryonic state, so don't
> expect too much at the moment.
>
> We would be glad to discuss with you all design aspects of our project
> and, of course, to gather any hints you would like to share with us.
>
> You will for sure hear from us in the next weeks, in the meanwhile I
> have just a couple of questions for you: are we doing it right? ;)
> Should we apply for some sort of agreement with OpenPlans?
>
> Bye, UP
>
> --
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>
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>
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