[OpenLayers-Dev] state of KML support

[Cameron Shorter]

See comments from Chris Holmes below.

Of note: Lisasoft has OGC funding to develop a KML client. We have been 
given the option to use Google Developer Toolkit or Mapbuilder. If we 
decide to work with Mapbuilder, then we will work in conjunction with 
other KML work in Openlayers.

Chris Holmes wrote:
> I'm not on OL-dev.  Tim could maybe tell people we're funded to work 
> on KML stuff.
>
> I think MapBender is also funded for KML client stuff.  I do think 
> it'd be kind of silly for three implementations to just all leverage 
> the OL code to do KML...  And kind of not what the sponsors want.
>
> Tim, I may try to call tomorrow to catch up a bit on stuff.
>
> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> Chris Holmes,
>> You might want to weigh in on this thread and mention your proposed 
>> OWS 5 work.
>>
>> Christopher Schmidt wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:27:30PM +0200, Sebastian Schmitz wrote:
>>>  
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Mapbender seeks KML support. One approach is to rely on OpenLayers 
>>>> to handle this and integrate OpenLayers more deeply into Mapbender. 
>>>> Given that background:
>>>>
>>>> What is the state of the art concerning KML support in OpenLayers?
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Extremely limited proof of concept parsing support of points and lines
>>> only, designed to be enough that someone else can take it and implement
>>> it as a patch, but not designed to be enough to work in any 'real'
>>> situation.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>   
>>
>>


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