Christopher Schmidt wrote:
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 02:41:36PM -0400, Jeffrey Warren wrote:
Absolutely, Christopher - I'm a big admirer of the OpenLayers community, and
the things you can do with it are impressive. Still, I haven't seen an
implementation of an entire map in vector on the client side - examples such
as this:
http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/wfs-reprojection.html
...which are great, still use a pre-rendered tile base layer. What I'm
hoping is that by sending *only* vector data, mappers can completely design
maps from the ground up with their own GSS stylesheets.
Like http://crschmidt.net/mapping/choropleth.html ? (Note that the
styling suppot here was written before SLD support was implemented, and
could now be done entirely using SLD instead of custom OpenLayers
rules.)
Contributing to OpenLayers++
Cartagen looks to have some cool ideas, but it'd be really awesome if it
was done by improving OpenLayers core and being a thin layer on top
that's optimized for Android and iPhone.
We've been thinking about GSS/Cascadenik type ideas, but having it go to
and from OpenLayers Style objects, as an alternative to SLD. See
http://opengeo.org/services/coredevelopment/openlayers/css_styling/
It'd be really great to have a web designer friendly alternative to SLD.
It may be a bit too early right now, but at some point we should start
an adhoc spec group, following on the successes of GeoRSS, GeoJSON, and
WMS-C, to make a standard for CSS for Map Styling. It'd be great to be
able to share styles between GeoServer, Mapnik and MapServer, and to use
Openlayers as a cross platform style editor (or the common basis for
different approaches to map styling). We'd be interested in
collaborating on a spec, and on implementations for OpenLayers and
GeoServer.
Chris.
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Chris Holmes
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
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