[OpenLayers-Dev] Summer of Code: Why two 'web-based configuration' ideas?

[Cameron Shorter]

As discussed in the last chat on this topic, I've merged the 2 Web Based 
Configuration SOC topics into one at: 
http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/SummerOfCode#Web-basedConfiguration

I've used the words " The student will likely build upon work from two 
projects: Lorenzo's code, and Mapbuilder."

Tim,
I understand that Mapbuilder could be seen as a competitor to 
Openlayers, especially as extensions in Mapbuilder are not always 
backwardly compatible into Openlayers.
However, I think there are great synergies to be gained by working 
together on problems.
Mapbuilder developers have been gradually migrating functionality from 
Mapbuilder to Openlayers - or developing the code in Openlayers then 
importing it into Mapbuilder. Eg: A year ago both projects were working 
on vector rendering and we combined forces to do this together. In this 
process, Mapbuilder is moving toward being an Openlayers AddIn. 
(Mapbuilder has a lot of code, so migration will take a while).
I see a Web Based Configuration tool as being another opportunity for 
Mapbuilder and Openlayers to move toward developing common tools.

Tim Schaub wrote:
> Don't know how the meeting went, but I'll throw in my thoughts.
>
> I like the idea that OpenLayers supports the reading and writing of 
> various vector formats (to and from our vector feature model).  It also 
> makes sense to me that OpenLayers should be able to serialize the map 
> state.  We've got a solid WMC parser now, so we can read and write Web 
> Map Context documents.  When OWS Context is settled, we can add in a 
> parser for OWS Context.
>
> Lorenzo already has put together WMS capabilities parsing.  I have 
> written a parser to do the same.  I think these can be brought in to the 
> trunk in the near future.
>
> All this is pretty straightforward and doesn't make for very exciting 
> SoC material (in my mind).
>
> If anybody is proposing a project that would do WMC parsing but would 
> not use the OpenLayers.Format.WMC, then I don't think this project 
> belongs as an OpenLayers SoC project.  Same goes for WMS Capabilities 
> parsing.  If you're going be doing something different with WMS 
> Capabilities than creating a list of layers usable by OpenLayers, then I 
> don't really see the point in having this be an OpenLayers SoC project.
>
> Perhaps all that is not very relevant, as I didn't read the MapBuilder 
> logs or any log of an #openlayers chat.  Just my opinion.
>
> Tim
>
> Lorenzo Becchi wrote:
>   
>> I'm nobody from the PSC, so I don't know how it has been decided to 
>> merge Mapbuilder Ideas with OL's ones.
>>
>>  From one side I found it cool to work on a WebMapping stack where OL is 
>> used as JS mapping library. So programmers from different projects, as 
>> Mapbuilder, as Mapguide-Fusion, CAmp2Camp, ecc. can share their common 
>> effort in common libs.
>>
>> the question:
>> is, merging MapBuilder SoC Ideas, a good idea in matter of common 
>> interest between all contributing projects?
>>
>> my very poor 0.02 euro
>>
>> Lorenzo
>>
>>
>>
>> Lorenzo Becchi wrote:
>>     
>>> Thanks Roald,
>>> sadly I can't be there tomorrow.
>>> It's a prohibitive time window for me all the week.
>>>
>>> ciao
>>> Lorenzo
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Roald de Wit wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hi Lorenzo, 
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 23:24 +0100, Lorenzo Becchi wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>>>> I've just seen I've lost the meeting. sorry
>>>>>     
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>>> The meeting is tomorrow, not today, so you can still make it! I think
>>>> something went wrong with the link provided (but the times in the email
>>>> are the correct ones).
>>>>
>>>> These should be the correct dates and times (Cameron, please correct me
>>>> if I'm wrong):
>>>>
>>>> Place    Time
>>>> Sydney    Tue 06:00
>>>> Amsterdam (Central European Time)    Mon 20:00
>>>> New York (Eastern Standard Time)    Mon 14:00
>>>> Los Angeles (Western Standard Time)    Mon 11:00
>>>> Greenwich Mean Time    Mon 19:00
>>>> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2008&month=3&day=17&hour=19&min=0&sec=0&p1=240&p2=16&p3=179&p4=137
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Roald
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>     
>>>>         
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