[josm-dev] Joining the map plugins

[Ľubomír Varga]

Hello,

I (helper with slippymap) suggested a time ago to use geotools library for 
reading data from net/disc and to render it also through geotools. In that 
library is imho all what josm needs, but I think it is not mergable into 
current architecture. So this solution is blind alley.

For same nterface for configuring I see this possibility. One of plugin will 
make his preferences panel and others will use it in his plugins. After doing 
so, preferences of all this "map plugins" wil look similar and will be more 
user friendly (familiar).

About merging two plugins into one is imho no problem. Just to compile them 
into one jar. It could be called "one+second_plugin". If some user wants both 
plugins, he could download just that one (merged) plugin.

What do you think about last solution?

Have a nice day.

On Wednesday 25 November 2009 18:22:25 Dirk Stöcker wrote:
> Hello,
>
> currently we have at least 4 different map plugins:
> - WMS
> - Slippymap
> - cadastre-fr
> - walking papers
>
> I believe, that at least WMS and slippymap and probably parts of walking
> papers and cadastre-fr could be joined into one plugin providing the users
> a more unified user interface.
>
> NOTE: I do not vote to unify the way the plugins fetch, handle and display
> data, but only the way the are installed, configured and visible to the
> user.
>
> Each of these plugins has features, which also would be useful to others,
> so joining them probably reduces duplicate code and allows to have the
> features available for more than one type of map data (even when in first
> step the code join probably would be mainly a "throw all into one
> plugin" only).
>
> Bug http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/3982 has the same topic.
>
> Ciao

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