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

Thijs Brentjens lists at brentjensgeoict.nl
Thu Jul 31 10:07:06 EDT 2008


Hi Bart, list,

Totally missed that one, sorry. Thanks! I'll have a look at it :).

Regards,
Thijs

2008/7/31 <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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