[Live-demo] OSGeo-Live and OpenLayers3

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Antonio,
I've had a quick pass over the OpenLayers Project Overview and Quickstart.

Project Overview:
* I notice there are only minor changes from OL2, which is mostly fine.
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/changeset?new=12020%40livedvd%2Fgisvm%2Ftrunk%2Fdoc%2Fen%2Foverview%2Fopenlayers_overview.rst&old=11575%40livedvd%2Fgisvm%2Ftrunk%2Fdoc%2Fen%2Foverview%2Fopenlayers_overview.rst

* I notice that reference to using Google Maps as a base layer has been 
removed. I assume that OL3 can still access Google Maps layers? This 
would be an important feature for some users, and worth noting. Is there 
any reason for removing such reference?

* I suggest having a look at the leaflet Project Overview. I suspect you 
will see features currently listed for Leaflet which could also be 
listed for OpenLayers.

* At the moment the Project Overview image is quite plain, with only one 
base map. You might want to consider adding some other features, such as 
a legend, a tool bar, popup window, etc. Possibly even create a collage 
such as used by GeoServer: 
http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/geoserver_overview.html

* I notice you are referencing the location of source code. This line 
should be removed as it doesn't fit with our template. Less words get 
read more. If someone is serious enough about the project to want to get 
source code, then they will find it on the project's web page.

Quickstart:
* I've only had a brief overview of the quickstart so far, but have noticed:

So far, there are no screen shots after each step, in line with our 
guidelines: 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Application_Quick_Start
(I see that the previous OpenLayers Quickstart didn't have images either)

An example of a good quickstart is: 
http://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/udig_quickstart.html
You might want to consider writing style and structure used by the 
udig_quickstart, which we use as our template to base other quickstarts 
from.

On 20/12/2014 7:34 am, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Thank you very much Antonio for all your work on OpenLayers 3.
> I'm forwarding your email onto the OSGeo-Live list.
>
> OSGeo-Live developers,
> I'd be keen to see feedback provided to Antonio for his packaging and 
> doc updates for OpenLayers 3.
> Anyone up to the task?
>
> I'm anticipating OpenLayers 3 will be one of the hot topics for the 
> OSGeo-Live 8.5 release.
>
> On 19/12/2014 5:21 pm, Antonio Santiago wrote:
>> Hi Cameron,
>> all modification for OpenLayers3 are at "trunk":
>>
>> - install script
>> - overview and quickstart pages (only in english)
>> - icons and images used in the docs
>>
>> Let me know if you need more help
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
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Cameron Shorter,
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