[Users] GeoExt 1.0?

[Eric Lemoine]

On Friday, January 22, 2010, Christopher Schmidt
<crschmidt at crschmidt.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:02:53PM -0500, Yves Moisan wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Perhaps I'm confused about what GeoExt was. I thought it was a framework
> to create attractive mapping applications more simply... not a replacement
> for any particular tool (ArcView, ArcMap, or otherwise).

Yes, GeoExt is a (client-side) framework to create mapping apps, and I
don't think there's desire to change that. We probably shouldn't talk
about "tools"; "components" would be more appropriate I guess.

I think Yves is just saying that he'd like that GeoExt provide
high(er)-level components that would ease developing apps with editing
functionality.

As a side note: our goal with the user extensions (ux) is to provide
high-level UI components targetting more specific user scenarios.
These ux may be why the term "tool" came up; just a guess.

> In that case, in my opinion, both of these things are not requirements
> for a '1.0' release; GeoExt, as it is, makes it easier to create
> user-friendly mapping applications. Tools like editing, styling, etc. are
> not neccesarily part of a 1.0 release.

I agree. There are a couple of things we'd want to do before Release
1.0 though, like bringing some consistency in our APIs, and being able
to publish per-release docs.

Cheers,

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