[OpenLayers-Users] OT: http://featureserver.org/

[Paul Spencer]

Chris,

one of the potential uses I have for this technology that comes up  
often is the notion of per-user 'redlining', a 'My Maps' kind of  
thing that is popular in GYM stuff.  Users can draw their own  
annotations on a map and potentially share them, but the annotations  
are not actually intended to change the underlying data that makes up  
the map.

It is certainly possible to implement these things using custom  
server-side code, but it seems to end up being a custom solution each  
time.  The FeatureServer technology would standardize the community  
on delivering this kind of feature.  It would also fit extremely well  
by providing a server-side companion to OpenLayers without burdening  
it with server-side technology (since it is all nicely RESTful).

Cheers

Paul

On 23-Apr-07, at 10:55 AM, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 10:25:21AM -0400, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
>> I found http://featureserver.org/ today.
>> Does anyone know who is doing this? or what the plans for this are?
>> This looks like it might be of interest to a bunch of us here.
>
> I know who is doing it, but I can't speak to plans yet :)
>
> FeatureServer is an internal project from MetaCarta Labs, and is being
> developed for a number of tools we're building. At the moment, the
> website is up so that the topic of RESTful Feature Serving can be
> pounded on.
>
> There are a number of different factors in the future of  
> FeatureServer,
> and I would like to hear more about what it's needed for so that we  
> can
> make it happen.
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> Christopher Schmidt
> MetaCarta
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