I thought I should make a small announcement on yet another OpenLayers based
WebGIS platform.
We here at the GeoMOOSE project are pretty excited for our latest release and
believe it deserves some bragging on the lists. We are actively looking for
additional contributors (developers, documenters, designers) and would like to
share our latest progress especially since it heavily relies on OpenLayers for
the client.
Thanks Everyone!
This version provides exciting new features that users have been requesting.
Some new features to GeoMOOSE 2.2 include:
* New website with more documentation and a redesigned gallery
* Implementation of Trac to submit bug and enhancement tickets
* New layer types such as Bing Maps, Google Maps, Yahoo Maps,
OpenStreetMap tiles and ArcGIS Server Rest services
* A new demo application to highlight the additional layer types in a
Web Mercator projection
* Enhancements to the selection/buffer services and ability to download
selection results
* Bug fixes to the geocode and popup services
* Addition of a feature report service
* Addition of a query builder service
* Addition of a user extensions framework to add your own code to GM
without modifying the core libraries, an example of this is a dynamic zoom
service
* Addition of custom cursors and scale bars
* More catalog presentation optionsPlease visit the gallery
http://www.geomoose.org/gallery oto see what users have been using GeoMOOSE for
or to submit your own application. You can also visit the live demo from the
main website link at the top of the page.
GeoMOOSE (www.geomoose.org) is an open source web application framework for
displaying geographic data. What makes GeoMOOSE unique is it provides an
out-of-the-box solution that makes it easy for non-developers to create
web-mapping applications with typical tools such as navigate, search, measure
and print. Non-developers only need to be comfortable with configuration files.
GeoMOOSE has a number of strengths including modularity, configurability, and
delivers a number of core functionalities in its packages. The project has
targeted local government business cases to distribute land records
information, but many other users have used it for much more. Since GeoMOOSE
is open source project it built on other popular open source projects such as
OpenLayers (www.openlayers.org) and MapServer (www.mapserver.org). To get
started with GeoMOOSE, simply go to the download page and install the software
demo.
We are excited to see the inception of this project go from a an application
developed by the City of St. Paul, MN to FGDC CAP grant to a robust open source
software project used by hundreds of people across the world in the last 3
years. We hope you find the investment made by all the developers a resource
to the GIS community. We are excited to see this project grow and we envision
continued growth as more and more users find it. We welcome feedback on the
GeoMOOSE project and hope you give the software a try.
Contact the project steering committee for more information:
* Dan "Ducky" Little: [email protected]
* Brian Fischer: [email protected]
* Bob Basques: [email protected]
* Jim Klassen: [email protected]
* Len Kne: [email protected]
* Brent Fraser: [email protected]
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