Re: [Geoserver-users] Modern Map Styling Editor for GeoServer?

2013-09-26 Thread Ian Mayo
I guess such a capability may arrive through the "GeoExt3" project, though its future name may be ngGeo. That may bring the "Javascript heavyweights" that Andreas mentioned, both in terms of developers and frameworks ;-) Personally, I think ngGeo may be a great foundation for a client-side UI for

Re: [Geoserver-users] Modern Map Styling Editor for GeoServer?

2013-09-25 Thread Andrea Aime
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:46 PM, Martin Davis wrote: > It's also a good way to "dogfood" the REST API. > The idea of dogfooding the REST API also came up when we decided to redo the GeoServer own GUI (which would have been the perfect candidate), some javascript folks pushed for this, but when

Re: [Geoserver-users] Modern Map Styling Editor for GeoServer?

2013-09-25 Thread Martin Davis
"Dog-fooding" is a, er, technical term for "verifying the functionality of an software interface or component by using it within the software itself". The idea is that the Style Editor shouid be implemented as a pure browser-side application, interfacing with GeoServer solely via the REST API. (T

Re: [Geoserver-users] Modern Map Styling Editor for GeoServer?

2013-09-25 Thread David Collins
Interesting discussion. Martin, what do you mean by 'dogfood the REST API' ? On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Martin Davis wrote: > It's also a good way to "dogfood" the REST API. > -- October Webinars: Code for Perform

Re: [Geoserver-users] Modern Map Styling Editor for GeoServer?

2013-09-25 Thread Martin Davis
Yes, CSS would be very good to support as well. Agreed, this is a non-trivial JS application. But perhaps is easier now than a few years ago, especially given the numerous similar applications starting to appear. On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Andrea Aime wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:

Re: [Geoserver-users] Modern Map Styling Editor for GeoServer?

2013-09-25 Thread Martin Davis
Summer of Code perhaps? Or even better, Winter of Code... On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Juan Marín Otero < juan.marin.ot...@gmail.com> wrote: > This would be a great thing to have. I agree with Andrea, that CSS would > be more attractive as a styling "language" and building it with pure clie

Re: [Geoserver-users] Modern Map Styling Editor for GeoServer?

2013-09-25 Thread Martin Davis
It's also a good way to "dogfood" the REST API. On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Juan Marín Otero < juan.marin.ot...@gmail.com> wrote: > This would be a great thing to have. I agree with Andrea, that CSS would > be more attractive as a styling "language" and building it with pure client > side t

Re: [Geoserver-users] Modern Map Styling Editor for GeoServer?

2013-09-25 Thread Juan Marín Otero
This would be a great thing to have. I agree with Andrea, that CSS would be more attractive as a styling "language" and building it with pure client side technologies and leveraging the REST API (which has the side benefit of making it more robust) is a good idea. On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 5:39 PM,

Re: [Geoserver-users] Modern Map Styling Editor for GeoServer?

2013-09-25 Thread Andrea Aime
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Martin Davis wrote: > Has anyone thought about implementing a browser-based map styling editor > for GeoServer? I'm thinking of a simple TileMill-esque sort of thing, > showing a map on one side and allowing editing a style on the other. > > Some features that w

Re: [Geoserver-users] Modern Map Styling Editor for GeoServer?

2013-09-25 Thread Martin Davis
Neat - I hadn't seen that. Makes perfect sense for the MapServer world. And a little friendly competition is always motivating! (Although TileMill has been providing this in spades for a while now...) The ScribeUI looks heavier-weight than I was thinking of. Could a useful styling editor be bu

Re: [Geoserver-users] Modern Map Styling Editor for GeoServer?

2013-09-25 Thread Rahkonen Jukka
Hi, You fear that Mapserver will have something that is easier to do than with Geoserver? http://mapgears.github.io/scribeui-site/ http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/xmlui/bitstream/handle/url/190/Scribe%3a%20MapServer%20Mapfile%20Development%20Made%20Easy.pdf?sequence=1 -Jukka Rahkonen- __

[Geoserver-users] Modern Map Styling Editor for GeoServer?

2013-09-25 Thread Martin Davis
Has anyone thought about implementing a browser-based map styling editor for GeoServer? I'm thinking of a simple TileMill-esque sort of thing, showing a map on one side and allowing editing a style on the other. Some features that would be useful: - Ability to speciify a base map tileset - Abili