Regarding the last point, I agree that it's difficult to see which direction to go. There are so many ways to store geospatial, many of which are resource and storage hogs. Imagine having 100 items, each with a URL-style field pointing to WMS services and Image and KML overlays to be displayed on the same map. Performance would definitely be sacrificed. Technically, this doesn't seem to be very hard as Google Maps supports these natively. Even if you integrated OpenLayers (or similar FOSS Geo map clients), these types of overlays can be easily done. Performance and variety of standards jump out at me as the biggest obstacles.
On a separate note, what about having a map extension that is similar to Timeplot? For example, you can bring in one CSV file or spreadsheet that contains dozens or hundreds of data points w. location. It could be a 2D array for different types of markers (like separate lines on Timeplot) or maybe separate maps (like different bands in Timeline.) - John >> For the long run, I'd love to work on some other possibilities. For >> example, textual coordinates are cumbersome when dealing with 6 places past >> the decimal point for hundreds of records. It would be nice to support >> links to KML files, GeoRSS Simple feeds, WMS services, maybe CSV or text >> files with coordinates. These formats people can easily create >> using Geo-types of software and can upload to a server. Some of these >> return images to overlay, some return lists of coordinates. Thinking about >> it now, maybe it's an external application's job to parse out KML files or >> CSV/TXT files and pass coordinates into Exhibit. Something for the future. >> >> > That would be useful to a lot of other people. But because Exhibit can > be very useful to many different groups of people in different ways, > it's very hard for me to pursue any particular direction. So, if you > really want the geo aspect of Exhibit to grow more powerful, you'd have > to be the person spearheading that effort. > > David > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
