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Wishlist for UI

Wishlist for UI

From:
Corliss, Donovan
Date:
2012-02-02 @ 17:57 
I love this UI for an Open Government Portal and would love this to be the
splash page for our Geonode implementation.

http://offeneskoeln.de/

I think in general Geonode follows the GIS (read ESRI)  model too closely 
– it expects you to be interested already in layers, maps, data, 
shapefiles, GeoTiffs but really all people want to do is see a map and 
search.  They will soon discover the layers and APIs, but initially get 
them interested in a place and what you have to offer. The splash/search 
page would serve return users as well who just remember finding something 
related to “x” but not where it was on the site.

Not sure what mapping tech they are using but seems to be OSM.
Donovan

Re: [geonode] Wishlist for UI

From:
luca.casagrande@gmail.com
Date:
2012-02-02 @ 18:12 
Il 02 febbraio 2012 18:57, Corliss, Donovan
<Donovan.Corliss@sfmta.com> ha scritto:

> Not sure what mapping tech they are using but seems to be OSM.

http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/

Bye
Luca


-- 
Luca Casagrande
twitter: lucacasagrande

Re: [geonode] Wishlist for UI

From:
Corliss, Donovan
Date:
2012-02-02 @ 18:31 
Thanks - been meaning to check out Leaflet  - seems to be a great quick 
alternative to Google Maps API but for a more powerful stack (editing, 
large datasets, data sharing, layer APIs)  Geoserver/GeoNode fits the 
bill.  Is that your read?
I like the jump start that Leaflet gives you - a little bit of code - and 
you see something.  I know to a developer customizing GeoNode is probably 
not difficult, but it would be nice to give the casual coder (there are a 
lot of us) an entry point to customizing GeoNode.
Donovan


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Il 02 febbraio 2012 18:57, Corliss, Donovan <Donovan.Corliss@sfmta.com> ha
scritto:

> Not sure what mapping tech they are using but seems to be OSM.

http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/

Bye
Luca


--
Luca Casagrande
twitter: lucacasagrande

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