[geojquery] BOF @ FOSSGIS "GeoJQuery"

[Eric Lemoine]

On Monday, March 8, 2010, adams <adams at terrestris.de> wrote:
> Dear guys,
>
> you receive this email, because I guess you might potentially be interessed in what happened last week at a BOF at the Osgeo local chapeter "german" conference in Osnabrück (http://www.fossgis.de/konferenz).
>
> Outgoing from the first thoughts about linking OpenLAyers and JQuery at the BOF "OpenLayers" at the Foss4G 2009 in Sydney at the conference last week there was a BOF with the topic "GeoJQuery". Find some information here:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/BOF_%22GeoJQuery%22_at_FOSSGIS_2010
>
> Andreas Hocevar pointed us to you guys: Ivan Willig, Chris Patterson, Robert Marianski because you already run the project "gQuery" - so if you are interested in joining our team or if you want to open, what you did up till now, let's talk ;-).
>
> We've already setup a mailing list (thanks to Arnulf) - join here: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/geojquery and also SVN/Trac on one of our servers. We pointed out, that for the really beginning it's most easy to start hosting the stuff from us (terrestris) - if somebody feels better, if we put it somewhere else, feel free! I think most interesting is the license, which should fit to jquery, because our plans are, to create a kinf of "mapping JQuery plugin".
>
> As said before , find more details at osgeo wiki or at the wiki "www.geojwquery.org"
>
> We would be glad, if you would join us!
>
> Two key things for the next steps are probably having a talk at Foss4G in Barcelona and of course making a BOF for the international community in Barcelona as well.

Hi Till and others,

Thanks for creating this list, this is great. I'd like to share my
thoughts regarding a geo jQuery lib, and hopefully get comments and
opinions about them.

I see two possible objectives in developing a geo jQuery lib based on
OpenLayers.

The first objective is having this lib wrap OpenLayers, and provide
another, jQuery-styled, API to the OpenLayers functionality. Such a
lib could facilitate adding maps to web pages, especially to people
used to jQuery and not proficient with OpenLayers. The API could also
provide shortcuts to OpenLayers features, making the development of
typical things faster.

The second objective is to create a lib that doesn't attempt to wrap
and hide OpenLayers, but attempts to provide new features, i.e.
features that OpenLayers doesn't provide and will never provide, an
advanced layer tree for example. This objective is actually the same
as GeoExt's, from my viewpoint.

I'd personnally be more interested in the second objective, because I
think this is where thr value is.

Why do you guys have in mind with this project? Are you favoring one
objective over the other? Do you think both objectives can be pursued?

I'm interested in any idea you have on that?

Thanks,

>
> Thanks, Till Adams
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