Now I wish I could help in software development :-( A way to add kml files in a database would be wonderful!
On Mar 12, 10:58 pm, John Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
