Hi Andrew,

sorry for the late reply, some comments inline.

Excited about your group's forthcoming contributions!

Best regards,
Bart

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On Apr 3, 2013, at 10:10 PM, "Vardeman, Andrew [CSSM]" <andr...@iastate.edu> 
wrote:

> OpenLayers developers,
> 
> Hello.  My group at Iowa State University has finally got a CLA submitted, 
> and I'd like to gauge interest in some of the work we've done in the last 
> year.  We have:
> Fairly robust client-side polygon split/merge using JSTS,
> Asynchronous tile caching using Web SQL Database, and
> A "survey" library of questionable relevance to core OpenLayers which uses 
> the OpenLayers class structure and can be used to build an attribute table 
> with complex validation rules
> …in addition to several small bug fixes related to iOS/touch support.

This sounds great!

> 
> I'll be submitting/following up on pull requests for the bug fixes, but I'm 
> curious whether any of the first three items are of interest for inclusion in 
> OpenLayers.
> 
> (1) obviously depends on JSTS, so I assume it can't become part of core 
> OpenLayers.  Also, it's 100% client-side and doesn't quite fit the existing 
> architecture of the Split tool.

It could qualify as an add-in likely: 
http://trac.osgeo.org/openlayers/wiki/Addins

> 
> (2) is related to PR #643.  We have async Web SQL DB working against OL 2.12, 
> but it's ugly code that touches all kinds of internal stuff it shouldn't have 
> to.

I'm guessing this can be of general interest to the library once cleaned up.

> 
> (3) could be useful to people doing survey data collection of attributed 
> vector features, but I don't know how common that is.

I don't think this fits in OpenLayers but it would be good to create a separate 
repository for this and announce it somewhere here on the users list maybe.

> 
> I'd appreciate any guidance.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrew Vardeman
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