Mhh, interesting! I wonder if there is any support for using e.g. GeoTools to render arbitrary layouts apart from spatial. Would be worth to investigate. The nice thing is that these algos support, as you mention, zomming into a static structure, and espose more and more detail on every layer.
Cheers, /peter neubauer GTalk: neubauer.peter Skype peter.neubauer Phone +46 704 106975 LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/neubauer Twitter http://twitter.com/peterneubauer http://www.neo4j.org - Your high performance graph database. http://www.thoughtmade.com - Scandinavia's coolest Bring-a-Thing party. On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Jacob Hansson <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry Peter, misread you. What I was thinking was to render non-spatial > graphs with neo4j spatial. A layout algorithm would calculate the > "coordinates" of each node we want to visualize. That way we can view really > big graphs in the browser, since the layout-work is already done by the > server. > Den 15 jan 2011 14.28 skrev "Jacob Hansson" <[email protected]>: >> Yeah, you couldn't do very much with the markers. But you could pre-render >> millions of nodes on the server, and serve it as a spatial layer as if it >> was a map. >> >> Geoserver would slice it up, allowing zooming and panning just like a map. >> Then you would add interactivity on top of the rendered image like google >> does with google maps. It would be difficult to allow moving nodes and so >> on, but clicking on them and adding relations etc would not be that >> difficult.. >> >> Especially cool if coupled with the styling available with the current geo >> stack. >> >> Imagine for instance visualizing the corporation ownership and board > members >> dataset, enabling cheap and super-easy access to the entire visualized > graph >> in any browser.. :) > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
