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Reusable, Accessible, Mapping Platform (RAMP)

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What is the RAMP?

  • A collaborative open source project led by Environment Canada.
  • RAMP provides the ability to rapidly deploy a theme based Web Mapping application, or to support the implementation of a dynamic Web Mapping viewer.
  • Built off of the ESRI JavaScript API, but strives for platform neutrality.

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Benefits

Accessibility, Usability, and Interoperability

  • Prioritizes WCAG 2.0 level AA compliance
  • Leverages WAI-ARIA to further enhance accessibility
  • Iterative approach to design, adapting to change all the time
  • Built on HTML5
  • Supports a wide variety of browsers (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera)

Themeable and Reusable

  • Flexible framework that supports custom templates and widgets
  • Allows teams to reuse their work across multiple projects

Reduces Development Costs

  • Provides with an out-of-the-box solution to reduce development costs
  • Avoids duplication of effort, continuously building a core toolset of cross-cutting project requirements
  • Breeds better quality solutions by working with proven technology

Inspiring Collaboration

  • Project managed on GitHub
  • External contributions welcome
  • Report issues and suggestions
  • Documentation
  • Testing

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