[OpenLayers-Dev] community page for controls, plugins?

[bartvde at osgis.nl]

Hi Thijs,

this falls under the concept of OpenLayers addins, see here for more info:

http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/Addins

Best regards,
Bart

> Hi list,
>
> At this moment I'm developing some smaller applications based on
> OpenLayers.
> Some of the code is worth sharing I think and fortunately this is okay
> with
> my customer. For example: I'm working on a more advanced LayerSwitcher
> control, using jQuery, and something to show the features of a vectorlayer
> in a table. The things I'm working on are mostly extended or new controls
> or
> let's say GUI elements. Since OL's goal is to be more of a library and not
> an application framework (correct?), I'm wondering what would be the best
> way to share these GUI elements, since there might be people interested
> in.
>
> Note: I'm aware of MapFish, which has its strengths of course, but for the
> cases I'm working on it's too heavy and personally I'm more a fan of
> jQuery
> than of ExtJS, especially when you don't need to develop that much heavy
> functionality :). Anyway, I'm looking for a way to share some
> OpenLayers-based code, without disturbing the OL library / core.
>
> Of course I can put my code on some website and point to that, but I'm
> looking for a better way to share it, closer to the OpenLayers community
> so
> to speak. So is there something like a community page, containing e.g.
> controls or plugin-like stuff for OpenLayers? I couldn't find anything
> like
> that. And should something like a community page be part of the
> OL-website?
> Personally I think that would be great, but I can imagine people are not
> really .
>
> Have others come across this?
>
> I'm very interested in your opinion! And if I've totally missed something,
> please let me know :) !
>
> Regards,
> Thijs
>
> PS My apologies for the vague language, I've been on holiday for a while
> :).
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