Comments on: Letting everyone remix web maps

By: Cameron Shorter

Cameron Shorter — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:08:36 +0000

Chris,
Great specification of what will become a very useful Browser based mapping client.

I’ve linked to this article from some Openlayers/Mapbuilder Google Summer of Code projects which describe something similar (in less detail):

http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/SummerOfCode#Web-basedConfiguration

http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/SummerOfCode#Web-basedConfigurationusingMapbuilder

http://trac.openlayers.org/wiki/SummerOfCode#DragandDropMappingWidgets

By: Rollie

Rollie — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:51:24 +0000

I am going to need to sit with you and figure out what you are talking about.

By: Tyler Mitchell

Tyler Mitchell — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:09:23 +0000

Great overview of your idea Chris! Did you have any ideas for a place to stick in geoprocessing capabilities?

Whenever I put the javascript map anywhere it will always have a ‘configure the map’ button, for others to start to remix. Once they hit the ‘configure the map’ button they get a nice listing of the layers and data that make up the map. They can restyle and change layers to their own liking with no permissions.

Perhaps with a similar approach you hit “configure the layer” button and choose from a set of geometry processes?

Tyler