Hi Jan,
Sorry for the delayed response. I'm hoping one of the more active
members of the incubation committee would speak up.
Assuming GeoStyler fits Jody's checklist (which it looks like it does),
I'm strongly in favour of including GeoStyler as an OSGeo community project.
From what I can see, GeoStyler addresses a pain point that many of us
in the OSGeo community have faced at some point, and I'd love to see it
promoted and grow. In particular, I'd love to see GeoStyler included in
OSGeoLive, http://live.osgeo.org
The application process
here:https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Projects/How_to_apply
<https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Projects/How_to_apply>. Would you
be interested in joining OSGeoLive? (Note the ongoing commitment
required in questions).
Cheers, Cameron
On 19/3/20 3:19 am, Jan Suleiman wrote:
Dear Incubation Committee,
we would like to introduce our Open Source project "GeoStyler".
GeoStyler is an Open Source JavaScript library that enables users to
style maps with the help of a Graphical User Interface.
The goal of GeoStyler is a universally applicable GUI that works with
any given style format; may it be SLD, QML, OpenLayers, etc.
In order to achieve that goal, we follow a plugin-approach where so
called "style-parsers" can be plugged into the UI. These style parsers
work as a conversion tool to bidirectionally convert between any
external style and our internal style format.
As a positive side effect, we are able to convert from one external
format to another one (e.g. from QML to SLD, etc.).
The GUI library is written in react but also provides browser builds
to enable its usage outside of any react application.
With thanks to currently 16 different contributors, we successfully
maintain 15 repositories in our GitHub organisation, including the UI
library and documentation, different style-parsers, data-parsers, type
definitions, a demo application and a tutorial. The majority of these
was also already published on NPM. On the OSGeo Bolsena Code Sprint
2019, a GeoServer Community Extension was written that integrates
GeoStyler and allows the creation of styles within GeoServer by using
our GUI.
The GitHub organisation can be found here:
https://github.com/geostyler/geostyler
The Demo Application including links to Docs, GitHub and NPM can be
found here: https://geostyler.org
The GeoServer Plugin here:
https://docs.geoserver.org/master/en/user/community/geostyler/index.html
FOSS4G 2019 Talk:
https://media.ccc.de/v/bucharest-204-geostyler-a-generic-graphical-style-editor-for-geodata
FOSSGIS 2019 Talk (German):
https://media.ccc.de/v/fossgis2019-478-geostyler-ein-generischer-grafischer-stileditor-fr-geodaten
AGIT 2019 Talk (German): https://av.tib.eu/media/43048
FOSSGIS 2020 Talk (German):
https://media.ccc.de/v/fossgis2020-3027-neues-vom-geostyler
The licenses are BSD-2-Clause and we are very happy and eager to
extend the list of contributors. Our first goal would be to be listed
on the OSGeo webpage and in the long run to release GeoStyler as an
OSGeo Community Project.
In the future, we would like to provide additional style-parsers (e.g.
for mapserver) and extend the UI library with additional components to
further simplify styling maps.
We are happy to receive your support, if there are any questions, we
are happy to help!
Kind regards
Jan Suleiman
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Cameron Shorter
Technology Demystifier
Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant
M +61 (0) 419 142 254
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