[Users] Editing in GeoExt (was: GeoExt 1.0?)

[Rolando Peñate]

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: http://projects.opengeo.org/geoext/wiki/GeoEditor

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.

If anyone has any questions or ideas (or interest or progress on  
developing capabilities) I'd be curious to hear about it.

—R

-- 
Rolando Peñate
Design Lead
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org


On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:02 PM, Yves Moisan wrote:

>> What's on people's minds for the minimum component list that we need
>> before we call things '1.0'?
>>
>> The list in my mind (past what's already in core, which I think  
>> gets us
>> much of the way there) is something like:
>>
>> * Styling
>> * Editing tools (with WFS-T and backed to other persistence formats)
>
> Editing tools need to allow at least snapping IMO.  Otherwise they  
> won't
> be used for "real" GIS/drawing work.  A personal wish I have is to be
> able to position a point or a vertex at specific coordinates, but I
> understand that may not be a requirement for a 1.0.  Snapping is  
> though
> IMO.
>
>> What is on other people's lists?  What makes GeoExt a
>> compelling mapping toolkit?
>
> For me, one real weakness of most web mapping interfaces is the lack  
> of
> serious editing capabilities.  Users around me will find GeoExt
> compelling when they can tell their customers they don't need ArcView
> anymore to add new features and for that we need at least snapping, as
> mentioned above.  The closer to the idea of web GIS GeoExt is, the  
> more
> compelling it will be.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Yves
>
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