[OpenLayers-Users] Whither extLayerSwitcher?

[William Kyngesburye]

On Oct 3, 2008, at 3:51 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:

> Everything is accesable in uncompressed form:
> http://www.bnhelp.cz/wwwlibs/hslayers/hsAddons/Control/HSLayerSwitcher.js
> http://www.bnhelp.cz/wwwlibs/hslayers/hsAddons/Layer/HSMapServer.js
>
Thanks.

> There is also on-the-fly generated documentation available:
> http://www.bnhelp.cz/wwwlibs/hslayers/doc/files/hsAddons/Control/HSLayerSwitcher-js.html
>
> Now the bad news: it was not opensourced (yet).
>
Er, if it's not opensource yet, you might want to remove the

  *  @Licence GNU/GPL

line until it is ;)


So, are there any major bugs in the old ExtLayerSwitcher?  Do either  
the old or new versions work in OL 2.7?

> There are several other feaures, which could be also interesting for
> other people (WMS/WFS Clients for example), are almost done as well,
> but, closed-source too.
>
> I try to persuit my boss, that we opensource this features, but it
> takes time. To say the truth, he is not affraid of the global marked,
> but of local providers - czech republic is small pont.
>
> But things are moving.
>
> Anyway, I can not forbid you to use the code, but, if you would like
> to do it in cleaner way, try to write an e-mail to the head of the
> company, I'm working for now: Stanislav Holy standa at bnhelp.cz Maybe
> small patch would help persuade him as well ;-)
>
Right now I'm testing/learning OL (I was busy with other stuff all  
summer and I'm just getting back to it).  One of the first things I  
noticed was the label clashes between separate layers, and your WMS  
layer splitting feature (so that it's a single WMS request) is exactly  
what I want.

It would be used on a public map to support our online map store, but  
eventually I'd like to add it to my toolbox for contract webmap work.

I'll probably start by seeing how far I can get with ExtLayerSwitcher.

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