[OpenLayers-Users] Openlayers based generic GIS tool?

[Andrew de Klerk]

In a way http://olarchitect.com/ does this, but that is more to provide a
GUI interface for a back-end developer to create a quick map. That said,
through browsing nabble you could quite easily create a map in a day or two
that has:

Basic controls
Layer chooser
Measure tool
Pick coordinate

Some of these are already built into mapfish as well
(http://trac.mapfish.org/trac/mapfish/wiki/Home)

Personal opinion is that is far easier and quicker to get a map up using
openlayers api, than the google api

Andrew

 

-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces at openlayers.org [mailto:users-bounces at openlayers.org] On
Behalf Of Sebastian Albrecht
Sent: 10 October 2008 12:44 PM
To: users at openlayers.org
Subject: [OpenLayers-Users] Openlayers based generic GIS tool?

Hello,

I am looking for a generic non-thematic GIS tool based on Openlayers as
a replacement for e. g. Google Maps. There are lots of examples and  GIS
applications in the gallery of Openlayers but they all are very specific
and only show one special kind of data.

A generic GIS tool could combine all the advantages of OpenLayers with
the good quality data of GM. It would be great then to have additional
tools like measuring, grabbing a latlon-coordinate or quickly adding a
WMS source a overlay for GM.

Is there something like this or is it weird to think about something
like that at all for some reason?

Best regards,
Sebastian
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