[OpenLayers-Dev] OSGeo mentor for Erik Hazzard?

[Roald de Wit]

Hi, 

Just throwing my 2 cents in here (from the side-line):

Both OLON and OWS are not OGC standards, although OWS might become one.
The OLON implementation is nearly complete (I presume) and the OWS one
is not (I presume too).

I'm curious what is missing in the OWS spec and/or implementation that
is needed to be able to store and manipulate a complete status of the
map, needed for this SOC project.

What path is preferred: the more flexible and close to home (OLON) or
the more standards based but limited (OWS) one?

My gut feeling now is: choose OLON and if we want an OWS import/export,
one can build upon Lorenzo's work in the (near) future and maybe use
OLON as an intermediate form.

Roald

On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 06:50 +0930, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> I'm not sure if Erik has caught up with others on IRC yet.
> He needs to assess how much work is required for OLON and whether
> getting OLON up to scratch will eat up all his time so that he can't
> focus on the core of his work.
> 
> Tim, Lorenzo, you may be able to help answer this?
> 
> Lorenzo Becchi wrote:
> > Hi Cameron,
> > Erik is welcome.
> > I can help for a part of the job but not for all of it.
> > OLON is an idea of Tim Schaub (CCed) and he's opinion would be important
> > to avoid to choose a closed road.
> > The development of OWS Manager is actually frozen and I have no idea
> > when/if will go on.
> >
> > ciao
> > Lorenzo
> >
> >
> >
> > Cameron Shorter wrote:
> >
> >> I've been chatting with Erik Hazzard, Google Summer of Code Student
> >> and discovered that he doesn't believe he has been allocated a mentor.
> >>
> >> He is working on an "Openlayers Map Creation Application Toolkit".
> >> Basically a click and drag builder of map widgets.
> >>
> >> My initial suggestion feeling was that this could be built with
> >> Mapbuilder, but Andrea has pointed out that OLON would probably be a
> >> better bet.
> >>
> >> Who can help mentoring Erik, especially with the OLON work?
> >>
> >> I can help out with general direction, but am out of my depth on the
> >> technical part.
> >>
> >>
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