[geojquery] BOF @ FOSSGIS "GeoJQuery"

[Marc Jansen]

Hi Eric,

I strongly favor the first option you mentioned. I'd guess that there 
are millions of jQuery developers out there that can be dragged into the 
GIS-scene by providing a very (!) easy interface to OpenLayers.

Wouldn't it be nice to register click events for features like this 
(syntax --of course -- likely to change):

$( '#mymap' ).bind( 'featureclick', function( feature ) {
  alert( 'You clicked ' + feature.id );
});

regardless of where (in terms of layers) the features are?

How would you like

$( '#mymap' ).read( 
'http://example.com/any/format/openlayers/can/read/service.cgi', 
function( serviceType, data ) {
  // this one would read GML, WFS, WKT, whatever
  $( this ).addData( data );
});

And think about chaining:

$( '#mymap' ).findFeatures({type: 'mainroad'}).bind( 'mouseover', 
function( feature ) {
  $( '#showinfo' ).value( 'The mouse is currently over ' + feature.id);
}).bind('mouseout', function() {
  $( '#showinfo' ).value( '' );
})

and so on, and so on...

Regards,

Marc




Eric Lemoine schrieb:
> 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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