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

[Yves Moisan]

>  OpenGeo: http://projects.opengeo.org/geoext/wiki/GeoEditor
> 
Thanx for the pointer.  Great work !
> 
> Editing is a big project for us—we see a 'third way' between Google
> Maps and trying to replace ArcMap/ArcView—

Great elevator pitch!  I guess aiming for the most basic editing tasks
using FOSS4G "JS" tools (GeoExt/MapFish/GeoEditor ...) would be a fair
goal.  I don't mean to replace all of what desktop GIS's do, but I'm
sure there are a lot of folks out there who use a very small percentage
of what Arc* offers them and they could probably get by without it with
"basic" editing capabilities in a web environment.  One or two people in
an organization can be ArcEquiped to gobble in data like imports from
AutoCAD or what not, but a whole lot of power users could just go in and
fix things with web tools.  

And then there are "web-only" tools like GeoRSS where browsers have the
edge over the desktop.  So a mixture of "desktop" utilities and the
power of the web.

> 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 

I guess that brings about the point raised by Matt (we're talking
client-side too!), since in this case versioning would not be a client
side technology-agnostic (you'd need GeoServer for it) functionality.

Cheers,

Yves