[OpenLayers-Dev] auto-generating OpenLayers javascript

[Burgholzer,Robert]

Cameron,
Thanks for the heads up on this.  I am very interested in working with
Erik. 
Erik, please drop me a line with a brief summary of your thoughts on
this.  Is the plan simply for a parser, or is the development of a
standard part of this?  Also, are you on this mailing list
(openlayers-dev), and if not, could you join it?  I think it would be
useful to have this dialog on the listserv, although Cameron, Bart,
others, you may disagree.

Justs an FYI, I don't see Erik's name on the SummerOfCode wiki entry
(http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/SummerOfCode), nor a description of the
project, unless I am missing it (quite possible).

BTW - Bart, I did not receive a copy of your email.  No clue as to why.
Maybe the MicroSized firewall here at work filters out anything with OS
in the senders name!

Tim - I am thinking that looking into OLON would be a good starting
point.  However, I wonder where that fits in with Erik's plans.

Looking forward to hearing from any and all,
r.b.

Robert W. Burgholzer
Surface Water Modeler
Office of Water Supply and Planning
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
rwburgholzer at deq.virginia.gov
804-698-4405
Open Source Modeling Tools:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/npsource/

-----Original Message-----
From: Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:43 PM
To: Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS)
Cc: Burgholzer,Robert; dev at openlayers.org; Erik Hazzard
Subject: Re: [OpenLayers-Dev] auto-generating OpenLayers javascript

Erik Hazard is a Google Summer of Code student who is interested in this

work. I suggest you touch base with him and work synergies between you.

Bart van den Eijnden (OSGIS) wrote:
> Hi Robert,
>
> you can use OpenLayers.Format.WMC (Web Map Context) for this purpose, 
> although it's pretty much limited to OpenLayers.Layer.WMS.
>
> If you need other types, you could look at the OWS Context
specification 
> by OGC, but there is no OL code currently for this format. Mapbuilder 
> does have code for this IIRC.
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
> Burgholzer,Robert wrote:
>   
>> I am interested in developing a parser that would take a block of XML

>> describing a map view (maybe SLD notation?) and turn it into 
>> OpenLayers javascript code.  Once I have done this, I would like to 
>> turn it into a WordPress plugin, so that maps can be dynamically
added 
>> to blogs, real, custom maps that is.  The things I think I need to 
>> know before starting this are:
>>
>>  
>>
>>    1. Is there already something out there that does this?
>>    2. What format is considered the best standard, SLD, or some
other?
>>    3. Is this interesting to others as well?
>>
>>  
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>  
>>
>> Robert W. Burgholzer
>>
>> Surface Water Modeler
>>
>> Office of Water Supply and Planning
>>
>> Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
>>
>> rwburgholzer at deq.virginia.gov <mailto:rwburgholzer at deq.virginia.gov>
>>
>> 804-698-4405
>>
>> Open Source Modeling Tools:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/npsource/
>>
>>  
>>
>>
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