There are a number of responders to this email, and I'm not sure everyone received all responses, so I've collated them below.
Cameron Shorter: Sydney +11 hours
Tim Schaub: Bozeman, MT, USA - MDT -7 hours.
Steven Ottens: amsterdam, .nl GMT +1
Anthony Manfredi: Illinois, USA, GMT -5
Lorenzo Becchi: Italy/Spain GMT+1
I think this shows our time zone:
http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?month=5&day=7&year=2007&p1=240&p2=75&p3=16&p4=893
I suggest we have a kickoff meeting to kick things off.
It looks like it will be difficult to find a good slot for everyone:
I suggest this: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2007&month=5&day=8&hour=20&min=0&sec=0&p1=240&p2=75&p3=16&p4=893
Who can make this? If not, would another day be better?
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Tim Schaub wrote:
Cameron Shorter wrote:
It seems that there are a number of us interested in a Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) parser/renderer/editor and as usual, it will be better if we work on this together rather than in competing projects.
Who is interested in this thread.
I am.
Why you are interested.
I know that parts of the resulting code would fit nicely in OpenLayers. I have a good idea of how that should fit in. Depending on how it is developed, I will have a good idea of what is not appropriate for OpenLayers - and should be instead be pushed elsewhere.
What you want to achieve.
I'd like anybody to be able to put together an SLD editor with as few dependencies as possible. (I see this being entirely possible with no specific server side dependencies.)
What platform you need to develop for.
A-Grade browsers.
What are your timeframes.
No specific time frame, as I don't currently have work that requires it. I can volunteer some time and schedule more time if I find a project that will make use of it.
Where you live and what timezone (so we can organise a meetings).
I'm in Bozeman, MT, USA - MDT -7 hours.
I look forward to being involved,
Tim
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Steven M. Ottens wrote:
I am interested
I'm running a high traffic educational GIS site and recently figured out that we need clientside classification to allow students to do GIS analysis on their data (collected by GPS/PDA) This would give a boost to GIS-education since it allows high-school students to show their data on a map the way they want
I want to end up with a intuitive (for highschool students) interface to select, classify and display their own data (prolly through wfs)
Just like any sensible being I develop for FF, but unfortunately schools use IE 5-7 (where IE5 is a lost cause)
There's no immediate timeframe, although and of august would be nice because it is the beginning of the schools year.
I live in amsterdam, .nl GMT +1
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Anthony Manfredi wrote:
Why you are interested.
I am a Google Summer of Code student working on an SLD editor for Geoserver.
What you want to achieve.
My ultimate goal is a user-friendly, general-purpose graphical SLD
editor: Something that simplifies common tasks but is still useful for
complex SLDs. This is unlikely to happen by the end of the Summer, so
the immediate goal is a very limited editor with a visual preview,
with a design that is easily extensible for more complex editing.
What platform you need to develop for.
Browsers
What are your timeframes.
The Summer of Code ends in late August.
Where you live and what timezone (so we can organise a meetings).
Illinois, USA, GMT -5
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Lorenzo Becchi wrote:
Hi Cameron,
It seems that there are a number of us interested in a Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) parser/renderer/editor and as usual, it will be better if we work on this together rather than in competing projects.
So I suggest we start by identifying:
Who is interested in this thread.
I am too.
Why you are interested.
I'm on a project at FAO (fao.org) that needs this component.
What you want to achieve.
I have a minimum target on a simple style editor for WMS, where "simple" stays for styling borders and colors of geometries. Soon we will need to add much more interactivity, es: adding standard raster styling (quantile, ...)
Naturally having a complete system that can manage WMS and Vector styles would be a dream.
We need an "easy to use" interface.
What platform you need to develop for.
OpenLayers and JS in general is the perfect environment for most of the features we need. Anyway we're thinking at a server component (based on geoServer) to receive feedback about features like min/max values, histograms, geometry types (maybe), ecc to let us refine the user interaction and experience.
The only component we have more or less defined is a SLD Storer that use OCG PutStyle and GetStyle to store and retrieve user defined styles, we've only thought at a little trick to extend it.
What are your timeframes.
Minimum target can be in 1-2 month, October for the prototype with a good set of features.
No Vector drawing needed for this year.
Where you live and what timezone (so we can organise a meetings).
Italy/Spain GMT+1
I'll be pleased to share the effort.
I'm fully available for the UI (JS) and I have support from my team for the server part (based on GeoServer or independent Java stuff).
ciao
Lorenzo
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