[OpenLayers-Dev] Geometry editing

Erik Uzureau erik.uzureau at metacarta.com
Thu Jun 14 21:44:26 EDT 2007


Hi Jeff, if these are features that you would like to see added to the OL
Vector support, please feel free to go ahead and make tickets for them.

That is probably the easiest way to signal to others that you are interested
in (and or working on) their development.

--E

On 6/14/07, Jeff Yutzler <jeff.yutzler at ionicenterprise.com> wrote:
>
> About a month ago, Christopher Schmidt, Tim Schaub, and a few others
> talked to me about the emerging geometry editing tools in OL.  I am
> currently using the point/line/polygon stuff from 2.4 in my own
> application.  It is quite nice, but falls short of what we developed
> outside of OL a year ago.  Here are the two main functionality gaps that
> we are interested in:
>
>     * complex geometry support (multi-point, multi-line, multi-polygon,
>       and inner ring).  I see that this is supported in the geometry
>       model itself, but not the editing tools.  In my own work, I
>       implemented this through a set of toolbars.
>     * geometry editing.  The move vertex stuff in
>
> http://dev.openlayers.org/sandbox/tschaub/feature/examples/modify-feature.html
>       is nice, but to be complete, it needs to also be able to delete
>       vertices, insert vertices before/after another vertex, and
>       add/remove geometry parts.  In my own work, I implemented this
>       through popups on vertices.
>
> I could not get much of a feel from TRAC what work, if any, is being
> planned in these areas.  If someone else is currently working on this
> stuff, I would be willing to collaborate.  If not, well, I'll just start
> messing around and see what I can come up with.
>
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