[OpenLayers-Dev] Available ressources for participating in development of open layers

[Christian Seewald]

Hi,

I am a software developer in a company specialising in Java and web development in general, located in Berlin/Germany.

We have developed a map application using open layers and tilecache and UMN Mapserver at the backend.

Our company has decided to spend some resources on open source development in open layers eg. by porting some of our additions in our own app to the open layers framework main development.

The app has been in production for several months by now (http://www.pegelonline.wsv.de/gast/karte/standard) and we have developed some additions to the open layers core. The main features which extend or add to open layers functionality are the following:

-          popups which both react to mouseover- and mouseclick-events
-          a feature for selecting markers (click on the ‘Auswählen’ - button (English select) at the popups) and acting upon the selection
-          a new theme for the open layers controls
-          a filtering and selection mechanism for a list of markers (open up the second + from the top at the right side)
-          another filtering mechanism which hides markers based on a combination of marker attributes (http://www.pegelonline.wsv.de/archiv/karte/standard), as the public version of this map displays only to measuring stations, the filter is not really useful, but you get the idea.
-          The data for each marker is based on ascii-data (http://www.pegelonline.wsv.de/internal/karte/openlayers/pegelinfo) which contains a lot of site specific additional data fields, besides the default data attributes provided by the OpenLayers.Format.Text and OpenLayers.Layer.Text classes. Maybe some abstracted version of adding custom attributes could be developed
-          The size of the markers depends on the zoom level

We would offer to refine some of these features, and work on further abstraction and modularization in our ol svn sandbox.

What we need is some guidance on what would be most useful and in what way, so we can prioritize our efforts in those directions.

If there are other more pressing issues we could also approach them.

Regards, Christian
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