Thanks Chris for your kind words. We have been able to barely scratch the surface as far as GeoSpatial tools integration is concerned. I would surely like to continue working with TG communitity and hopefully see more participation in this area both in terms of use and development).
Regards Sanjiv On Aug 21, 11:24 pm, percious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Congratulations to Sanjiv for participating in such a successful > GSoC. I must say I was quite impressed in the way Sanjiv was able to > adapt to the ever-changing requirement changes as licensing issues and > competitive interests directed much of his work. It is my sincere > hope that Sanjiv continues to be active in our community, as his work > exemplifies TurboGears status as the most adaptable web framework > available. > > cheers. > -chris > > On Aug 19, 10:11 pm, Sanjiv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thanks Michele for all the help. > > > Regards > > Sanjiv > > > On Aug 19, 8:47 pm, mbertoldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Great work Sanjiv, > > > it's really a lot of stuff! > > > I'm going to see all your work. > > > I see that paging works well. > > > > Michele. > > > > On Aug 18, 5:27 pm, Sanjiv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Final status report for the project: > > > > "ToscaWidgets Library for jQuery & OpenLayers" > > > > GSoC 2008 > > > > Mentoring Org: TurboGears > > > > Student: Sanjiv Singh > > > > Mentor: Christopher Perkins > > > > > Dear Community, > > > > > The coding for GSoC officially ends today at 19:00 UTC. Before I move > > > > on to the report, I wish to convey my sincere thanks and gratitude to > > > > my mentor Christopher Perkins[1] who showed faith in me and constantly > > > > guided and encouraged me to move ahead. I would like to specially > > > > thank TG2[2] project lead Mark Ramm and ToscaWidgets[3] creator > > > > Alberto Valverde who have helped me a lot during the project. I would > > > > also like to thank our GSoC Admin Christopher Arndt, Michele Bertoldi, > > > > Laureano Arcanio, Bruno Melo and rest of the TurboGears Community for > > > > their help and support. > > > > > I also thank Eric Lemonie of Camp to Camp for helping me move ahead > > > > with MapFish and to the entire MapFish and OpenLayers Community for > > > > their support. I thank Christopher Schmidt of Metacarta Labs for > > > > OpenLayers and TileCache. > > > > > Although the initial project accepted for GSoC involved creating > > > > ToscaWidgets for OpenLayers and jQuery, after creating several widgets > > > > with jQuery and ExtJS, it was felt that some work on bringing in > > > > server side geo components to TG2 along with OpenLayers would enable > > > > the use of TG for GIS Applications and the TurboGears Extension > > > > tg.ext.geo[6] project was born. At the end of coding for GSoC 2008 the > > > > status of all these works are as follows:- > > > > > 1) Widgets for jQuery and ExtJS > > > > Several widgets were created for jQuery and ExtJS. These include > > > > jQuery AjaxForm, jQuery Treeview, FlexiGrid, ExtJS SingleSelectCombo, > > > > ItemSelector (aka SelectShuttle). The documentaion and examples for > > > > these widgets with TG2 were in the old wiki documentation. They would > > > > be moved into the official TG2 ToscaWidgets Cookbook docs soon. > > > > > 2) Widgets for JSUnit[4] > > > > While coding for these widgets, a need for javascript unit testing > > > > tool was felt and a widget for JSUnit[7] Javascript Unit Testing > > > > framework was developed. A runner widget for in-browser running of the > > > > tests was also created. The documentation for TG2 usage would be moved > > > > from old wiki to official docs soon. > > > > > 3) OpenLayers[5] > > > > A ToscaWidgets library has been created for OpenLayers Javascript > > > > Mapping toolkit. At present it has support for maps with layers of > > > > GoogleMaps, YahooMaps, VirtualEarth, WMS, OpenStreetMap layers using > > > > Mapnik and OSMRender, and Vector Layers (GML). The standard map > > > > control components like layer switcher, panzoom, etc. have been added. > > > > Controls for vector editing are also supported. A demo application > > > > with WMS and GML layers and vector editing of features can been seen > > > > athttp://sanjiv.homelinux.net:8081/. Feel free to edit the vectors > > > > and deform the geography as I have a backup of the db ;) > > > > > 4) TG2 Geo Extension with MapFish[6] > > > > The tg.ext.geo extension implements the server side component for > > > > vector query and editing. It is mainly based on MapFish server. > > > > However the templates are modified to suit the TG Object Distach > > > > BaseController. This may change in future and be fully based on > > > > MapFish server which uses a RESTFul controller. The extension makes > > > > use of existing PythonGIS tools like Shapely and GeoJSON. Thanks to > > > > Eric Lemonie, Sean Gillies, Matt Russell and the GISPython community > > > > for bringing the GIS tools to python developers. A demo application > > > > with openlayers based feature selection and a DojoGrid for displaying > > > > the attribute data can be seen athttp://sanjiv.homelinux.net/. > > > > Thanks to Michele Bertoldi for helping me with his Dojo Grid. > > > > > 5) TG2 Geo Extension for TileCache[7] > > > > tg.ext.geo has a paster command for reading a tilecache config file > > > > and generating controller code with TileCache mounted as a WSGI app in > > > > TG2. This makes it possible to use TileCache within TG for caching of > > > > WMS tiles using the WMS-C standard proposed by MetaCarta Labs. Once > > > > again thanks to Christopher Schmidt for creating TileCache. A demo app > > > > with backend tile generation using TileCache running in a TG2 app can > > > > be seen athttp://sanjiv.homelinux.net:8082/. > > > > > Over the next couple of weeks I would write tests and documentation > > > > for all these components and would continue to develop and maintain > > > > them in future as these works are far from complete. I would be > > > > extremely happy to receive your views, suggestions, feedbacks, etc. I > > > > would be most delighted to see people join in and move these tools > > > > forward. > > > > > Thanks once again to the open source community and Google for this > > > > great learning experience. > > > > > Regards > > > > Sanjiv > > > > > [1] http://www.percious.com > > > > [2] http://turbogears.org > > > > [3] http://toscawidgets.org > > > > [4] http://jsunit.net > > > > [5] http://openlayers.org > > > > [6] http://mapfish.org > > > > [7] http://tilecache.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-trunk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
