On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:02:13PM -0800, Matthew Doyle wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm new to the group so my apologies if this gets posted twice. > > An OpenLayers implementation mentioned previously, http://beta.whereis.com > beta.whereis.com , have very similar functionality to what my client wishes > to have. I am curious to know; can all the interactive functions be > accomplished purely with OpenLayers? Or is it likely they have some other > software components in the background being included as Layers?
You'll need to be more specific to get a reasonable answer. > In particular I am interested in interacting with the WFS layers and > triggering a function (opening a popup which allows you to link to > another page) by clicking one of these features. http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/select-feature-openpopup.html > Then more advanced, if possible; being able to click and drag > (rectangle, circle or multi-sided polygon) to select a group of > features from a WFS layer and interact with these. Draw multiple polygons on: http://crschmidt.net/mapping/wpserverdemo/ click the far left tool (select) Hold down shift, click and drag a box around multiple features. > We are seriously considering development in OpenLayers over other open > source developments such as ka-map and MapGuide OS. MapGuide OS is multiple things: both a server side and a client side. The 'new' webby frontend to MapGuide is Fusion, as I understand it, and that's based on OpenLayers for mapping. For building a complex web application from scratch, Fusion may not provide the tools you need; as I understood it, it was designed to be a web map viewer rather than an application development toolkit. ka-Map has essentially stagnated in development as OpenLayers has grown; As Paul Spencer pointed out, it has unfortunately been largely left alone, with OpenLayers taking the spotlight: "As I said before, if a project is to advance then it needs a healthy community of users and developers. kaMap doesn't have a healthy community of developers right now, and so it is stagnant as a project. But it is a workable code base that has some potential advantages in the right situations. A couple of active developers with some vision could take it and produce a compelling solution." [1] Depending on the type of solution you're looking for, these tools may help you. For building a complex web application, I think it's likely that you'll want to get to the 'bare metal' of OpenLayers, and possibly even below it. > This community seems to > be a very healthy and active one and that excites us. Hats off to the > community! Active and healthy aren't equivilant; I certainly never get enough sleep. Too busy helping OpenLayers users. > Also, as a ballpark approximation, how far off would the next milestone > release (2.6) be? Optimistically, a first RC will be one week from Friday. Realistically, it will be before the end of February. [1] http://lists.maptools.org/pipermail/ka-map-users/2008-February/003463.html Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt MetaCarta _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/users
