[geojquery] BOF @ FOSSGIS "GeoJQuery"

Tue Mar 9 13:40:41 EST 2010

Eric, @all,

our main idea was first to focus on what you presented as your first 
idea -  one of our core ideas on the bof were, to go close to JQuery and 
to use OpenLayers as ONE (and the first) mapping component and to make 
integration of maps in JQuery style fast and easy, so that users do not 
have to write the OL code for integrating a projection a layer and so on.

What wqe think should be possible is to extent that later to any other 
mapping library, so we have just one dependency - to JQuery.

I think your second idea is what I personnally also want to go for... 
sometomes. Using extended nice JQuery features like a tree or whatever 
to extend OL (or any other integrated mapping lib) to what OL does not 
have. I think we can do the first (because its easier to start with) and 
should always focus ion the second, which means for me, we should at 
every time be able to do the second.

I think the main focus should not to "rebuilt" or "clone" GeoExt in 
JQuery - therefore both libs are too different, but the easy use of nice 
features from JQuery as add-ons later is absolutely what I am interested in.

I hope that makes things clearer on what we thought - but still...and to 
stress that again: This is just a pool of ideas, so please everybody 
correct and comment on everything! Please also join the WIKI at 
www.geojquery.org.

The core idea is first to create a kind of community and to get all 
people interested in JQueryx and OpenLayers on board. It seems, that we 
are on a good way... a lot of interest till know... so we should 
definetely go on with the next BOF in Barcelona.

Regards, Till

Eric Lemoine wrote:
> 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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