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

[Steve Lime]

Strikes me as WFS without all the headaches of WFS. I could see MapServer 
acting in a capacity like this. - Steve

>>> On 4/23/2007 at 11:43 AM, in message
<9B5A185D-6078-48AE-843A-AD121E49302F at gmail.com>, Paul Spencer
<pagameba at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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