[mapserver-users] GSoC Project - ScribeUI: A mapfile editor

[Jessica Lapointe]

Hi,

I am working on making a release later this week, in the meantime you can
look at the mockups for the application on the project's blog:
http://mapgears.github.io/scribeui-site/

Thanks for your interest !
Jessica


On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Rahkonen Jukka
<jukka.rahkonen at mmmtike.fi>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> How is this interesting project going on? I have been awaiting a tool like
> this since the death of MapLab.
>
> -Jukka Rahkonen-
> ________________________________________
> Julien-Samuel Lacroix wrote
>
> > Hello,
>
> > We are pleased to announce that MapServer got 2 project accepted for the
> Google Summer of Code. This first one is ScribeUI: A GUI and tools for
> MapServer mapfile editing [1]. ScribeUI (name subject to change) is a
> mapfile management GUI that works both locally or remotely. This tool
> aims to make it easier for beginners to start with MapServer and to be a
> productivity tool for power-users. It will of course provide a nice
> mapfile editor with autocompletion, meaningful error messages and color
> swatches. In the future, the tool could be extended to manage MapCache
> tile generation, test SQL queries or even deploy sites.
>
> > You can see the first mockups here:
>
> >  http://mapgears.github.io/scribeui-site/
>
> ScribeUI will support the mapfile syntax as well as the Basemaps [1] and
> Scribe syntax [2]. It will also feature a workspace manager that will
> enable the user to group mapfiles per project and the ability to run on
> a server to make things easier when working remotly.
>
> About the student:
>
> Jessica is an entrepreneur. Despite her young age, she already shines at
> the international level (just like Mapgears!) with her font production
> business: CuttyFruty?.com. She developed her interest for font sets when
> she was 13, and today, her fonts are being used by big names such as
> Lise Wathier, Barbie, Microsoft and Rihanna. (Read more here.)
>
> Even if her first start-up was very artsy, Jessica also has a passion
> for software and web development, and she will actually represent Canada
> at the World Skills competition this July. She is in the process of
> completing a bachelor's degree in computer science, and it is as a
> software developer that she joins the project. We are already looking
> forward to what her exceptional combination of artistic and programming
> skills will bring to the MapServer project.
>
> [1]
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/jlapointe/4001
> [2]  https://github.com/mapserver/basemaps
> [3]  http://www.mapgears.com/en/blog/archive/2013-03-12-scribe
> [4]  http://www.worldskills.org/
>
> Stay tune for the initial release!
>
> Julien
> --
> Julien-Samuel Lacroix
> Mapgears
> http://www.mapgears.com/
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