[Live-demo] OSGeo-Live and OpenLayers3

[Antonio Santiago]

Hi, I have updated the overview page for OpenLayers3 and placed a new image.
I would appreciate a review (my english is not awesome :) ).

Now, I'll try to improve the quickstart section.

On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Antonio Santiago <asantiagop at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Cameron,
> I made no big changes from source documents, I updated the logo and image
> and rewrite the quickstart doc following the previous rules.
> 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.
>
> As you suggest, I'll try to improve the overview page, the screenshots and
> the quickstart.
>
> Cheers.
>
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Cameron Shorter <
> cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  Hi Antonio,
>> I've had a quick pass over the OpenLayers Project Overview and Quickstart.
>>
>> Project Overview:
>> * I notice there are only minor changes from OL2, which is mostly fine.
>>
>> 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
>>
>> * 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?
>>
>> * 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.
>>
>> * 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:
>> http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geoserver_overview.html
>>
>> * 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.
>>
>> Quickstart:
>> * I've only had a brief overview of the quickstart so far, but have
>> noticed:
>>
>> So far, there are no screen shots after each step, in line with our
>> guidelines:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Application_Quick_Start
>> (I see that the previous OpenLayers Quickstart didn't have images either)
>>
>> An example of a good quickstart is:
>> http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/udig_quickstart.html
>> 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.
>>
>> On 20/12/2014 7:34 am, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>
>> Thank you very much Antonio for all your work on OpenLayers 3.
>> I'm forwarding your email onto the OSGeo-Live list.
>>
>> OSGeo-Live developers,
>> I'd be keen to see feedback provided to Antonio for his packaging and doc
>> updates for OpenLayers 3.
>> Anyone up to the task?
>>
>> I'm anticipating OpenLayers 3 will be one of the hot topics for the
>> OSGeo-Live 8.5 release.
>>
>> On 19/12/2014 5:21 pm, Antonio Santiago wrote:
>>
>> Hi Cameron,
>> all modification for OpenLayers3 are at "trunk":
>>
>>  - install script
>> - overview and quickstart pages (only in english)
>> - icons and images used in the docs
>>
>>  Let me know if you need more help
>>
>>  Cheers.
>>
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