[OpenLayers-Users] MapFish vs OpenLayers

[Vidal, Antoni]

Hello Bart and Hugo,

 

I'm new with MapFish, I've just installed and done some basic tests. 

 

First of all, I don't understand how it works pylons virtual environment. Anyway, I'm interested in client side of MapFish to build a Rich web mappinng application. Now We use OL over an apache server and it's a clear and tipical structure of files and data. When We need to create a new component, we extends OL classes creating new js files. Server side components are created using servlets or php and client comunicates with them using ajax.

 

I don't understand how the same can be do it with MapFish. I think there are a great dependency with python server environment.

 

Antoni Vidal

www.icc.cat <http://www.icc.cat/> 

 

 

 

De: Bart van den Eijnden [mailto:bartvde at osgis.nl] 
Enviat: jueves, 15 de julio de 2010 15:05
Per a: Vidal, Antoni
A/c: users at openlayers.org
Tema: Re: [OpenLayers-Users] MapFish vs OpenLayers

 

Hi,

 

I think you need to differentiate between MapFish and GeoExt.

 

GeoExt adds a nice looking GUI to OpenLayers, it's all still javascript. GeoExt is also used by MapFish.

 

What is complex in your opinion?

 

MapFish is more than just a client webmapping package, it's a full web-mapping solution, so server-side + client-side.

 

Also read:

 

http://erilem.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/mapfish-and-geoext/

 

Best regards,

Bart

 

On Jul 15, 2010, at 3:00 PM, Vidal, Antoni wrote:





Hello list,

 

We use OpenLayers since 4 years and the results are very satisfactory. Nowadays, We are planning to make a step foreward using MapFIsh. Somebody has experience with this framework? What's your opinion versus OL?

 

In my first sight, I think MapFish too complex.

 

What do you think?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Antoni Vidal

Unitat d'Aplicacions SIG-WEB
Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya <http://mercuri.icc.cat/website/mob_nf/mob1/mob2/inici2.htm?CONSULTA=Institut%20Cartogr%25E0fic%20de%20Catalunya&XYADDRESS=429486:4580392> 
Parc de Montjuïc, E-08038 Barcelona
Tel. (+34) 93 567 15 00 (ext. 3228)
www.icc.cat <http://www.icc.cat/> 

 

 

 

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