<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Not to hijack the thread or anything, but since editing tools seem to be of interest to a few people on here I thought I'd share some exploratory design work we've doing over here at OpenGeo: <a href="http://projects.opengeo.org/geoext/wiki/GeoEditor">http://projects.opengeo.org/geoext/wiki/GeoEditor</a></div><div><br></div><div>Editing is a big project for us—we see a 'third way' between Google Maps and trying to replace ArcMap/ArcView—and we're trying to determine how we can get some serious editing capabilities into our web mapping apps. As you can see from the wireframes above, we've explored use cases ranging from attribute editing to vector editing to full on versioning and moderation.</div><div><br></div><div>If anyone has any questions or ideas (or interest or progress on developing capabilities) I'd be curious to hear about it.</div><div><br></div><div>—R</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>-- <br>Rolando Peñate</div><div>Design Lead</div><div>OpenGeo - <a href="http://opengeo.org/" target="_blank">http://opengeo.org</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div><div><br></div><div>On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Yves Moisan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">What's on people's minds for the minimum component list that we need <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">before we call things '1.0'?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The list in my mind (past what's already in core, which I think gets us <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">much of the way there) is something like:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">* Styling<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">* Editing tools (with WFS-T and backed to other persistence formats)<br></blockquote><br>Editing tools need to allow at least snapping IMO. Otherwise they won't<br>be used for "real" GIS/drawing work. A personal wish I have is to be<br>able to position a point or a vertex at specific coordinates, but I<br>understand that may not be a requirement for a 1.0. Snapping is though<br>IMO.<br><br><blockquote type="cite">What is on other people's lists? What makes GeoExt a <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">compelling mapping toolkit?<br></blockquote><br>For me, one real weakness of most web mapping interfaces is the lack of<br>serious editing capabilities. Users around me will find GeoExt<br>compelling when they can tell their customers they don't need ArcView<br>anymore to add new features and for that we need at least snapping, as<br>mentioned above. The closer to the idea of web GIS GeoExt is, the more<br>compelling it will be.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Yves<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Users@geoext.org">Users@geoext.org</a><br>http://www.geoext.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>