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Hi Antonio,<br>
I'm reviewing your Project Overview. Before getting into depth, I'd
like to ask the key question which most potential developers will
want to know.<br>
<br>
Why should a new developer want to use OpenLayers3 instead of
Leaflet? What is special about OL3?<br>
<br>
Re the image:<br>
* The 4 images that you current have shows the same OpenLayers
framework with 4 different basemap. That is not selling all the
great features of OpenLayers. This image is your first chance to
draw in a potential new user, and showing a map and tools that they
will likely want to use is the best way to draw them in.<br>
<br>
I'd suggest trying to show an indicative range of the different
tools that can be added to a map that people may want to include:
Eg: a legend, a pop up query, styling. This example shows some of
that: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://openlayers.org/en/v3.0.0/examples/kml-earthquakes.html">http://openlayers.org/en/v3.0.0/examples/kml-earthquakes.html</a><br>
<br>
What else can you show? <br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/12/2014 4:14 am, Antonio Santiago
wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:CAKunvi2sx_pKg1SSC=ws12SdO_SA2FHngzqO=K-dBT8q7Ov+ag@mail.gmail.com"
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<div dir="ltr">Hi, I have updated the overview page for
OpenLayers3 and placed a new image.
<div>I would appreciate a review (my english is not awesome :)
).</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Now, I'll try to improve the quickstart section.<br>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:31 AM,
Antonio Santiago <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:asantiagop@gmail.com" target="_blank">asantiagop@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Hi Cameron,
<div>I made no big changes from source documents, I
updated the logo and image and rewrite the
quickstart doc following the previous rules.</div>
<div>OL3 has no support for GMaps base layers, it is
possible but due gmaps license it does not offers a
direct class implementation like in OL2.<br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>As you suggest, I'll try to improve the overview
page, the screenshots and the quickstart.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Cheers.</div>
</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at
12:38 PM, Cameron Shorter <span dir="ltr"><<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com"
target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span>
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0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc
solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Hi
Antonio,<br>
I've had a quick pass over the OpenLayers
Project Overview and Quickstart.<br>
<br>
Project Overview:<br>
* I notice there are only minor changes from
OL2, which is mostly fine.<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/changeset?new=12020%40livedvd%2Fgisvm%2Ftrunk%2Fdoc%2Fen%2Foverview%2Fopenlayers_overview.rst&old=11575%40livedvd%2Fgisvm%2Ftrunk%2Fdoc%2Fen%2Foverview%2Fopenlayers_overview.rst"
target="_blank">http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/changeset?new=12020%40livedvd%2Fgisvm%2Ftrunk%2Fdoc%2Fen%2Foverview%2Fopenlayers_overview.rst&old=11575%40livedvd%2Fgisvm%2Ftrunk%2Fdoc%2Fen%2Foverview%2Fopenlayers_overview.rst</a><br>
<br>
* I notice that reference to using Google
Maps as a base layer has been removed. I
assume that OL3 can still access Google Maps
layers? This would be an important feature
for some users, and worth noting. Is there
any reason for removing such reference?<br>
<br>
* I suggest having a look at the leaflet
Project Overview. I suspect you will see
features currently listed for Leaflet which
could also be listed for OpenLayers.<br>
<br>
* At the moment the Project Overview image
is quite plain, with only one base map. You
might want to consider adding some other
features, such as a legend, a tool bar,
popup window, etc. Possibly even create a
collage such as used by GeoServer: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geoserver_overview.html"
target="_blank">http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geoserver_overview.html</a><br>
<br>
* I notice you are referencing the location
of source code. This line should be removed
as it doesn't fit with our template. Less
words get read more. If someone is serious
enough about the project to want to get
source code, then they will find it on the
project's web page.<br>
<br>
Quickstart:<br>
* I've only had a brief overview of the
quickstart so far, but have noticed:<br>
<br>
So far, there are no screen shots after each
step, in line with our guidelines: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Application_Quick_Start"
target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Application_Quick_Start</a><br>
(I see that the previous OpenLayers
Quickstart didn't have images either)<br>
<br>
An example of a good quickstart is: <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/udig_quickstart.html"
target="_blank">http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/udig_quickstart.html</a><br>
You might want to consider writing style and
structure used by the udig_quickstart, which
we use as our template to base other
quickstarts from.<br>
<br>
<div>On 20/12/2014 7:34 am, Cameron Shorter
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"> Thank you very much
Antonio for all your work on OpenLayers 3.<br>
I'm forwarding your email onto the
OSGeo-Live list.<br>
<br>
OSGeo-Live developers,<br>
I'd be keen to see feedback provided to
Antonio for his packaging and doc updates
for OpenLayers 3.<br>
Anyone up to the task?<br>
<br>
I'm anticipating OpenLayers 3 will be one
of the hot topics for the OSGeo-Live 8.5
release.<br>
<br>
<div>On 19/12/2014 5:21 pm, Antonio
Santiago wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">
<div dir="ltr">Hi Cameron,
<div>all modification for OpenLayers3
are at "trunk":</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>- install script</div>
<div>- overview and quickstart pages
(only in english)</div>
<div>- icons and images used in the
docs</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Let me know if you need more help</div>
<div><br>
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<div>Cheers.</div>
<div>
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