Hi all, I approached a couple of folks at ApacheCon in Vancouver about some work that I am involved with that would benefit from an httpd module. I am sending this message to the list to provide more information, and to seek advice on how we should proceed.
We are developing a format we call "Map Markup Language", or MapML. The objective of this format is to describe Web map semantics - that is scale / zoom, projection, extent, features, styles, licenses, legends in the context of a hypermedia media type that can be manipulated / interacted with through the uniform interface alone. We would like to eventually register the format as text/mapml. The niche for the format is best described as "HTML, but for maps". The draft, and evolving, specification for the format can be found here: http://maps4html.github.io/MapML/spec/, which is one of a group of repos belonging to the W3C Maps for HTML Community Group: https://github.com/Maps4HTML. We want to develop an httpd module, "mod_mapml" which will allow the admin to configure MapML responses over a map tile cache, using one or more URI templates as configuration parameters. A Java servlet prototype for this functionality is available: https://github.com/Maps4HTML/MapMLServer. (For the servlet, the parameters are passed via web.xml). Examples of MapML responses can be elicited from a running instances of that servlet here, for example: http://geogratis.gc.ca/mapml/osm/?xmin=9720501&ymin=12017514&xmax=9721201&ymax=12017914&zoom=17&projection=OSMTILE or http://geogratis.gc.ca/mapml/fdr_current/?xmin=2312&ymin=2582&xmax=2952&ymax=3062&zoom=2&projection=CBMTILE We would like some advice on how to proceed with the development of a module. For instance should we pursue this as a third-party module? Can we tap into the community for development assistance if we don't have the required skills in-house? Any advice would be appreciated. Regards, ________________________________ Joost van Ulden Project Advisor, Earth Sciences Sector Natural Resources Canada / Government of Canada joost.vanul...@canada.ca / Tel: 778-960-9248 Conseiller à la gestion de projets, Secteur des sciences de la Terre Ressources naturelles Canada / Gouvernement du Canada joost.vanul...@canada.ca / Tél. : 778-960-9248
