Hi.
Is there any interest from the group for an interactive map control in
the Sandbox? We have one which uses Yahoo's AJAX free mapping service
(http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/index.html <http://maps.yahoo.com>)
which I am willing to donate. The service provides a variety of cool
features such as satellite and hybrid views, overlay of GeoRSS feeds
such as traffic and weather if available etc., street level address
geocoding (US and Canada) and city level geocoding for the rest of the
world. The service is free for non-commercial use but you need to
register with Yahoo to get a id for your application. Commercial use of
the service is available byu contacting Yahoo.
Yes, there's a great demand in a Map Viewer which could be integrated into JSF
applications. I would suggest taking a look at Community Map Builder
(http://communitymapbuilder.org) before going on.
In its current version the JSF control provides basic features for
displaying addresses or previously located points, map configuration and
GeoRSS overlays and the ability to include linked content in popups, and
an extensible pluggable geocoding framework with an alternate US
geocoding service (http://geocoder.us).
Some possible directions the control could go are to (a) generalize the
API to include Google Maps and possibly some for-fee services such as
Microsoft's MapPoint.NET or ESRI's ArcWeb Services, (b) provide
alternate country-centric geocoding services such as the free
geocoder.us, (c) included local search APIs such as Yahoo's, or Microsoft's
An of course you'll have to base on the OGC stack of standards (WMS, WFS Spatial
Context and so on).
Bye.
/lexi
- Re: Sandox - Interactive Ajax Map Aleksei Valikov
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