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OpenLayers @ OpenGeo
Andreas is an active OpenLayers developer and GeoExt steering committee member. He has been working in geospatial for over 15 years, and is a frequent teacher and speaker.
Tim is an active developer and steering committee member for OpenLayers. Before joining OpenGeo, Tim worked on numerous GIS development projects as a consultant and researcher.
Sebastian is project manager of the GeoNode initiative. A GeoExt committer and contributor to OpenLayers and GeoServer, he has also worked on marketing collateral, budgeting, and business development.
David Winslow is Technical Lead of the GeoNode team. As a committer on GeoTools, GeoServer, and GeoExt, as well as a contributor to OpenLayers, his expertise covers the entire OpenGeo Stack. Before coming to OpenGeo, he worked on biological and ecological research projects using graphics hardware to accelerate analysis.
Roadmap Items
Shared Polygon Boundary Edit Tool
Polygon collections that form a “coverage” are a common form of GIS data. This tool will allow users to edit the locations of boundaries that are shared by two or more polygons.
Polygon collections are very often generated as sets of shapes that share boundaries. Rather than digitizing new polygons and using snapping to create a duplicate bounding, a “build polygon” tool allows users to add new polygons on to the sides of existing polygons.
New web technology and powerful handheld devices mean that web technology can be used in an “offline mode” using local resources and synchronizing with servers with connections are restored.
Full Support of Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) specification
OpenLayers has basic support of the SLD specification of the OGC, but there are a number of more advanced options that it does not support. Among those are multiple symbolizers per rule and advanced labeling and rendering options. Another improvement needed for the web environment is to to support POST requests for WMS/Image layers to overcome the url length limitation (e.g. when using client defined SLD for rendering).
Support Cascadenik, a way to style maps in using a syntax similar to CSS, as a way to persist and create OpenLayers style objects. Makes cartography easy for web designers.
CQL is a terse language for writing data filters. This item will allow users to flip between a GUI view of the filter and a text view of the filter in CQL, and edit either one.
Creating new geometry from COGO directions is a common use case for web editing tools in county and municipal jurisdictions. This work item will take in COGO directions and return a feature suitable for rendering on the map, sending back to the server, etc.