Hello,
Okay, this is good. Let's start at the beginning. You want a map in a
browser? If so, geotools is *not* for you! While geotools started as a
project for applets, geotools is now focused elsewhere. There are
several other projects that do browser widgets: consider perhaps
OpenLayers.org.
If you want to serve maps from a central location, look at the geoserver
and mapbuilder projects.
If you want to look at maps and analyze them, then geotools/udig or
grass are good choices.
While it sounds like you now have a clear idea in your head what you
want to do, this is not clear in your mail: what's a basic feature? what
kind of analysis, spatial analysis? (We are not there yet.) Maps on the
central repository --- that's a server project. Serving to web
pages---that's an openlayers or other project
So it sounds like geotools is not for you. You could put your maps on
geoserver somewhere and setup a web server with openlayers support.
Geotools is a library which means it's basically useless to anyone who
is not ready to program new computer code seriously.
If you want more help, please flesh out your design requirement into a
good paragraph. Don't start with the technology but with what you want
the end product to *do*
"We are a small company with geographic data we hope to provide
our users. Millie is a typical user, she lives at home and wants
to see which of our collaborators has the store closest to her
house. She opens her browser, selects her town and sees a bunch
of big points where the stores are." (Or something like that).
Sorry not to have the magic bullet for you; GIS is hard, figuring out
what one wants is tough, finding the technology that can do it is a
struggle, and putting it all together requires perseverance!
--adrian
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 04:50 +0000, Rina Bhatt wrote:
> hi,
>
> sorry for bothering u again but its getting hard to understand as i am
> just a beginner to java and ofcourse with geotools.
>
> let me once again pen down my requirements clearly-
>
> 1. all basic features.
>
> 2. business analysis
>
> 3. web based / browser supportive
>
> 4. maps can be accessed from the central repository
>
> as i already mentioned, being beginner to java , can u please detail
> the steps and also which version i should download of geotools.
>
> thank you in advance,
>
> reena
>
>
> clouds
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