[OSGeo-Standards] Re: OpenLayers WMS Context++

[Cameron Shorter]

As part of the OWS 5 testbed a few of us have signed up to add KML 3 
support to Mapbuilder, Openlayers and Mapbender.
KML3 has not been fully speced out yet, but is rumored to be a merging 
of OWS Context and KML2.
There has been discussion on the OpenLayers list to do much of the 
development in Openlayers and then for Mapbuilder/Mapbender to gain the 
functionality by using the OpenLayers engine.

On the current WMC and OWS Context front.
* Mapbuilder reads both WMC and OWS Context. Exporting Context from 
Mapbuilder is a trivial exercise and there is already a save Context option.
* Mapbuilder has supported WMC since the project started, and OWS 
Context for a year or 2.
* Lorenzo Becchi has an alpha WMC parser in Openlayers. I'm not sure 
when this is likely to make it into the Openlayers trunk.

Examples:
(Mostly created by Mike Adair)
http://demo.communitymapbuilder.org/demo/mapbuilder/demo/contextEditor/index.html
http://demo.communitymapbuilder.org/demo/mapbuilder/demo/OWSExplorer/index.html

I'm currently extending these demos to support Catalog search as well.

Jody Garnett wrote:
> Hi Cameron (and list)
>
> I understand Cameron that you are adding WMS Context (and a few vendor 
> specific extensions?) to OpenLayer based on some MapBuilder code. Do 
> you have documentation on what you are up to? Or a sample schema and 
> file? I would love to refresh the uDig context document support and be 
> able to swap scenes with MapBuilder.
>
> I assumed you guys looked at OWS Context as well?
>
> Jody
>


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