GeoCola - Configureable Openlayers App

Currently under development. A configureable, modular, map viewing application.

Features

• View nearly any type of geographic data. Any layer type supported by Openlayers 3 is supported by Geocola
• Identify WMS and Tiled WMS layers in a popup
• Measure point locations, line distances, and polygon areas
• Print Openlayer 3 maps using a supported print service (currently supports Mapfish)
• Toggle layers and sublayers on and off, including grouped WMS layers using a layer tree

Components

Geocola consists of the following components all of which can be used individually:

• spectre-canjs - A data administration component library built on the Spectre.css framework enabled with CanJS
• can-geo - Web mapping web components built using CanJS

Getting started

Requirements

• NodeJS (npm install)
• A production web server (apache, nginx), a development server through nodejs is provided
• A wms compatible mapserver, like Geoserver

Setup the project

# get the code
git clone http://path-to-this-repository

# change to this directory
cd geocola

# setup requirements
npm install

# run a development server on localhost:8080
npm serve

The application should run in a web browser now using http://localhost:8080/index-dev.html. To build it for production:

npm run build

Use index.html to use the production build

Open source projects used

• Openlayers 3 - "A high-performance, feature-packed library for all your mapping needs."
• CanJS - Custom web components, 2-way binding mustache and handlebar templates
• StealJS - Dependency loader and builder/optimizer
• [Spectre.css] - a lightweight, responsive and modern CSS framework.
• Font Awesome - The iconic font and CSS toolkit

Contributing

• Additional tests and documentation
• Constructive criticism and code reviews
• Pull requests and widget enhancements/additions

Related projects

• CMV
• OCMV