[OpenLayers-Dev] GeoJson Service question

Pieter De Graef pieter.degraef at geosparc.com
Fri Aug 13 05:00:15 EDT 2010



Eric Lemoine schreef:
> On Friday, August 13, 2010, Pieter De Graef <pieter.degraef at geosparc.com> wrote:
>   
>> Thanks Bart,
>>
>> I think that's it. I'll look at example implementations first and get
>> back here if I have more questions.
>>     
>
> Hi Pieter.
>
> OpenLayers.Protocol.HTTP now fully supports the MapFish HTTP
> interfaces (a.k.a. the MapFish Protocol), defined at
> <http://trac.mapfish.org/trac/mapfish/wiki/MapFishProtocol>. MapFish
> and FeatureServer share the same HTTP interfaces. So if you develop
> web services that respect these interfaces (in Geomajas or anywhere
> else) you and your users could just use Protocol.HTTP and
> Format.GeoJSON without any modification or extension to OpenLayers.
> And going that path would lead to some compatibility across our server
> implementations, which would probably be a good thing.
>
> Hope it makes sense.
>
>   
Sure does. But what about rights/licenses? Can I create such a service 
without having to adopt MapFish license (GPL?)

-- 
Pieter De Graef

Community Manager
GeoSparc nv.
http://www.geosparc.com/

Chairman of the Geomajas project
http://www.geomajas.org/


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