[Live-demo] OSGeo-Live and OpenLayers3

Tue Dec 23 13:46:39 PST 2014

Hi Cameron,
I think a bit out of time but I just commited some changes on the
OpenLayers3 quickstart and added a couple of screenshot.

Thanks.

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Antonio Santiago <asantiagop at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi, I have updated the overview page for OpenLayers3 and placed a new
> image.
> I would appreciate a review (my english is not awesome :) ).
>
> Now, I'll try to improve the quickstart section.
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Antonio Santiago <asantiagop at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Cameron,
>> I made no big changes from source documents, I updated the logo and image
>> and rewrite the quickstart doc following the previous rules.
>> OL3 has no support for GMaps base layers, it is possible but due gmaps
>> license it does not offers a direct class implementation like in OL2.
>>
>> As you suggest, I'll try to improve the overview page, the screenshots
>> and the quickstart.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Cameron Shorter <
>> cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  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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