[mapguide-internals] PSC Meeting Actions and Transcript are Posted

[Mike Adair]

Perhaps I can take a stab at this while Paul is away on vacation and I 
am currently working on this.  It's also a good opportunity to introduce 
myself to the list.

Fusion will use OpenLayers for rendering maps and OL event handling on 
the map.  This means that Fusion will be able to support all the layer 
types supported by OL, which are many, both tiled and untiled.  It 
should also be able to support vector rendering and editing once OL 
supports that.  I've created a MapGuide OL layer type, but that may or 
may not make it back to the OL trunk because the MapGuide service is 
somewhat stateful and requires server-side scripts, whereas OL is 
entirely client-side.  Passing a session parameter around is ok, but it 
would be great if you could add an interface to create a MgMap object, 
that would help out with this issue.

The existing Fusion widgets and controls will continue to be used, and 
just hook into the OL events on the Map div.  (You can probably also use 
OL controls but I'm not currently planning on testing that.)  This means 
that styling and layout of the apps will continue to use  JX layout and 
CSS files.

It will also mean that Fusion should be able to support multiple layers 
in a Map: eg. a MapGuide base layer combined with WMS overlay, combined 
with a GeoRSS layer on top of that.  However this will require some 
changes to a WebLayout document, that will likely be non-backwards 
compatible.  We are currently working on what that document will look like.

Hope that answers some of your questions,  let me know if you have any 
others.

Mike Adair


Robert Bray wrote:
> Haris,
>
> Agreed. Paul may be able to give you some directed information on 
> Fusion and I think the background section of the RFC should discuss 
> the general benefits. Jason and I can probably help with that as well.
>
> I'll have a look at the motivation section after my vacation and make 
> sure it includes the level of detail you are looking for.
>
> Bob
>
> Haris Kurtagic wrote:
>> Hi Bob,
>>
>> I would like to add to RFC of Fusion that I think it would be very
>> helpfull to get more information's about Fusion.
>> I am thinking on getting more of technical details about Fusion. For 
>> example, on PSC meeting Paul mentioned That Fusion is using
>> Prototype JSON and OpeLayers. I would appreciate if I can get more
>> information's about how Fusion is using those.
>>
>> This kind of information go to RFC ?
>>
>> I suppose that most of other PSC members are much more familiar with
>> Fusion then me and I would like to better understand benefits which
>> comes with Fusion.
>>
>> Haris
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Robert
>> Bray
>> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:35 PM
>> To: MapGuide Internals Mail List
>> Subject: [mapguide-internals] PSC Meeting Actions and Transcript are
>> Posted
>>
>> I posted the actions and transcript of the meeting here: 
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/PscMeeting08-02-2007. Please let 
>> me know if you see any errors.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bob
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