I understand the idea is to develop an add-in for OpenOffice.org and as I have said, "Great idea!"
Some people have projects that have to be done right now, and I thought I would share some things that are available now. One of the projects, uDig ais written in Java and may have code that would be useful for a OpenOffice add-in. Geoda is not fully open source and there is a new OpenGeoda project starting. If you still have a copy of MS Office 97 lying around, it has an add-in for MapInfo. *What you need* - Excel Version 7.0 or 8.0 (Office 95 or Office 97) - Your map layers, in MapInfo format - XLS worksheet data to map. *Step-by-Step* - Be sure the MS Map feature of Excel is installed. [It is optional] - Add your MapInfo map layers to the Excel map catalog using the setup program included with Excel. [Look for the program in "\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Datamap\..] - Start Excel. Use Excel "File > Open" to display the worksheet containing values to be mapped. - Highlight the columns of values; pick the Map icon (globe); then draw the map area on the worksheet. http://www.sgsi.com/MIUserGroup/miug1197.htm There are also Wikipedia articles for CDC's EPI Info and US Census CSPro. WikiPedia CDC EPI Info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epi_Info WikiPedia US Census CSPro http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSPro The Wikipedia articles provide good overviews that the websites sometimes explain in a more roundabout format A more statistically oriented, geographic exploratory data analysis is provided by GeoDA from the University of Illinois campus in Urbana/Champaign (same University campus that developed ancestor of the Firefox web browser). https://www.geoda.uiuc.edu/ Wikipedia GeoDA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoDA I repeat, I am not saying a GIS add-in is not needed in OpenOffice.org, I just wanted to provide some idea of the state of the art for thematic oriented GIS (as opposed to full-blown GRASS). Jim Callahan Orlando, FL On Nov 19, 2007 9:48 AM, Jim Callahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "The idea is to add (basic) GIS (Geographical Information System) > > functionalities to OpenOffice Base. This kind of features terribly lacks > > > > in standard DBMS, thus people interested in displaying maps must use > > another software - and that often means spending a lot of time to get > > used to it. I'm not talking about executing advanced spatial queries or > > image analysis, but something like displaying a map would be a good > > start." > > > > Great idea! > Until then you might want to look at the uDig and QGIS projects or some > programs available from the US government. > > uDig > http://udig.refractions.net/confluence/display/UDIG/Home > > Wikipedia uDig > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDig > > Quantum GIS (QGIS) > http://www.qgis.org/ > > Wikipedia QGIS > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_GIS > > There is also EPI Info available at the US Center for Disease Control and > Prevention (CDC) > http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/ > > and Census and Survey PROcessing system (CSPRO) available at the US Census > department. > http://www.census.gov/ipc/imps/mapview/impsmap.html > > Jim Callahan > Orlando, FL > > > On Nov 19, 2007 10:09 AM, Nicolas Clavaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > Hi everybody. I have an idea for OpenOffice but not enough Java/UNO > > programming experience to start, so you can certainly help : > > > > The idea is to add (basic) GIS (Geographical Information System) > > functionalities to OpenOffice Base. This kind of features terribly lacks > > in standard DBMS, thus people interested in displaying maps must use > > another software - and that often means spending a lot of time to get > > used to it. I'm not talking about executing advanced spatial queries or > > image analysis, but something like displaying a map would be a good > > start. > > > > I have many ideas of how it could look like - I tried to summarize them > > on a webpage : http://n.clavaud.free.fr/OOoGIS/index-en.htm - but I have > > > > no idea how it could be implemented in OOo : do I have to create an > > add-on or a UNO component? I have Java + Netbeans + OOo SDK, and a basic > > understanding of english. Do I need anything else? > > > > Who would be interested to join / help me? > > > > Thank you, > > Nicolas > > > > And btw, thanks to all who have answered my first post (which is already > > one-year old...) : > > > > http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=dev&by=thread&from=1595100 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > >
