Mats Norén wrote: > Sorry guys for jumping in this late in the game, but has has anyone > considered writing a contrib for OpenLayers[1]? > OpenLayers covers a lot of the functionality of the GMap client and is > open source with a BSD license. > Some of the features: > - Vector support for displaying and drawing > - KML support > - Markers > - GeoRSS > - GML Parser > - SVG support > - WMS and WFS compliant > - Use Google Maps, VE or Yahoo as baselayers and add your own markers > or layers on top. > - Hooks for all map events > > On top of this, there are a boatload of examples to look at [2]. > > GeoServer[3] + Wicket + Openlayers would, in my opinion, be a killer > gis/map enabled webstack. Throw in PostGIS [4] and you got the entire > foodchain for your mapping needs. > > I would love to contribute in some way but I don´t see the relevance > in just going the Google way. Is there a particular reason for > choosing GMap? > > No not for me, only reason for choosing GMap was that it was already there, and I did not know of anything else. Also I think the documentation for GMap API are somewhat poorly described, not all functions and events are listed on the officalt pages.
I'll look into the Openlayers stuff, seems like some very nice stuff.:) > Best regards, > Mats > > ps. > In GeoServer community branch there is some old? code for their > management GUI [5] that uses Wicket. > ds. > > [1] http://openlayers.org > [2] http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/ > [3] http://geoserver.org > [4] http://postgis.refractions.net/ > [5]. > http://svn.codehaus.org/geoserver/branches/1.4.x/community/modular_ui/wicket-sample/ > > > > On 6/19/07, Nino Saturnino Martinez Vazquez Wael > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Wrote answers below.. >> >> Martin Funk wrote: >> >>> Iulian Costan schrieb: >>> >>> >>>> yap, well done, also maybe we can put together the effort and improve >>>> things. >>>> >>>> >>> yeah, right on wicket-contrib-gmap2 is the most constructive comment I >>> was able to give on wicket-contrib-gmap. >>> Do a diff -r wicket-contrib-gmap wicket-contrib-gmap2 and it'll >>> precisely show which parts of the code I thought needed to be changed. >>> Pick the parts you like and merge em. After all its all Apache Licensed. >>> >>> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Wicket-user mailing list > Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list Wicket-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
