[mapserver-users] ScribeUI on Google Summer of Code 2015

[Samuel Lapointe]

Hi all,

ScribeUI has been accepted as a project for the 2015 edition of the Google
Summer of Code. This means I will be working on it all summer long.

ScribeUI is a web utility to create and preview mapfiles using either the
regular mapfile syntax or the Scribe syntax. Its main objective is making
the work of mapfiles developers easier.

You can try it without installing it by going on http://demo.scribeui.org.
This page is reset every day to prevent it from going too messy. There is a
guide available on the wiki to help you get started here:
https://github.com/mapgears/scribeui/wiki/Getting-started-with-ScribeUI


I have three big objectives for this summer:

1. Improve the error detection of ScribeUI. This means displaying the line
numbers of the Scribe files and not the mapfiles when appropriate

2. Add an import/export workspace feature. The buttons are already there
but the feature isn't implemented

3. Automatically create classes based on sets of data. This would allow
users to make demographics maps very easily for example.

I will also post regular updates on the Scribe blog, here:
http://mapgears.github.io/scribe-blog/


I hope I will be able to make this project more active. If you have any
troubles or questions, don't hesitate to ask.

Have a nice day!
Samuel Lapointe
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