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OpenGeo Services

OpenGeo offers GeoExt core development to add new features to the project.

Our GeoExt Team

Tim Schaub

Tim Schaub

Tim serves as CTO of OpenGeo, and 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.

Rolando Peñate

Rolando Peñate

Rollie is lead designer at OpenGeo. He has been involved in major user interface and graphic design decisions for GeoServer, GeoWebCache, GeoExt, GeoNode, and the OpenGeo Suite.
Sam Smith

Sam Smith

Samuel has worn multiple hats during his 12-year affair with spatial technologies: user, print cartographer, web-mapper, integrator, scripter/programmer, trainer, analyst, manager.

About GeoExt

GeoExt is a JavaScript library that provides a groundwork for creating rich web mapping applications. It combines the web mapping library OpenLayers with Extjs, "a cross-browser JavaScript library for building rich internet applications." GeoExt provides a suite of customizable widgets and data handling support that makes it easy to build applications for viewing, editing, and styling geospatial data.

GeoExt Applications

GeoExt makes it easy to build web mapping applications like the ones below:

  • Styler: An interactive styling application for geospatial data.
  • GeoExplorer: A tool for browsing geospatial data on the web

GeoExt @ OpenGeo

Recent Contributions

OpenGeo is one of the founding partners in the development of GeoExt. We have many committers on staff and fund GeoExt core and application development.

Working closely with other members of the community, our developers have had a hand in every component of GeoExt, including:

  • The map panel, layer tree, legend and Popup widgets.
  • The store classes that facilitate easy handling of data within GeoExt applications.

Core Development Roadmap

Export Functionality

GeoExt should provide components that make it easy to export the current map to a variety of formats. Foremost among these is embedding the current view to a webpage or blog. Past that it would be great to export in a variety of formats, like Google Earth, PDF, or as another GeoExt application with alternate controls.

Versioned Editing Toolbar and Components

There have been several applications making use of the WFS-V 'versioning' protocol of GeoServer, to do operations like History, Diff and Rollback in addition to the standard editing. These should have default components in GeoExt so people can easily add rich versioning capabilities to their applications

Login Manager

Many applications will need to allow users to logon to a remote server, be it for remote administration, editing of data, or controlled view access. GeoExt should have a default manager for logging on, with different options for the backend login mechanism and desired front-end gui dialog.

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