[OpenLayers-Dev] vector behavior

[Zac Spitzer]

Really cool stuff :)

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Christopher Schmidt
<crschmidt at metacarta.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:02:13PM -0400, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
>  > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 05:46:47PM -0600, Tim Schaub wrote:
>  > > Hey-
>  > >
>  > > Some may have already seen the proposal for new vector layer behavior.
>  > > http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Proposal/VectorBehavior
>  > >
>  > > This week, I'll be working on implementing a bit of this new design.
>  > > I'm focussed on an AtomPub protocol, an Atom format, and a somewhat
>  > > smartish BBOX strategy.
>  >
>  > Thanks for the email letting us know what's up.
>  >
>  > Out of curiosity: some Protocols seem likely to be 'trapped' within a
>  > single Format. I'm assuming that you don't see any problem with that, so
>  > long as it is sufficiently documented. I'm asking only because the
>  > majority of protocols seem to clearly be in a position where they'll be
>  > able to cope with many formats -- WFS read support, AtomPub support,
>  > etc. -- while a minority -- ESRI-REST, WFS-T/write, etc. -- are tied to
>  > a specific Format. Does this make sense? Is a format-specific protocol
>  > still a protocol? (I think yes.)
>
>  Alright, based on my assumption, I've gone ahead and implemented Google
>  Gears and HTML5 Local Storage support.
>  http://crschmidt.net/mapping/localdb/ . Patch is at
>  http://crschmidt.net/~crschmidt/localdb.patch ; it's in SVK. When you
>  guys are done on your push, let me know, and we can talk about the best
>  way to integrate.
>
>  This demo uses the local database in your browser to store features.
>  read(), create(), update(), delete() are committed: my assumption at
>  this point is that commit() will eventually be implemented on the base
>  Protocol() class, so I didn't bother to implement that method.
>
>  I would not recommend anyone using this code for long term anything at
>  the moment, since at the very least there is an obvious use case for a
>  four-tuple based 'bbox' query, but it was a way to get a quick proof of
>  concept up in a night.
>
>
>
>  Regards,
>  --
>  Christopher Schmidt
>  MetaCarta
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