Hi Lexi, Thanks for the note. The map viewer I'm talking about is just a wrapper around various publicly available online mapping services rather than a full blown GIS application. The requirements would be restricted to:
[1] Geocode one or more locations and display on a map. [2] Provide pan, zoom functions for the map. [3] Provide ability to overlay user-specific data using GeoRSS feeds. [4] Provide ability to customize map symbols and context-sensitive hypermedia for locations displayed on the map. [5] Provide a pluggable API for localized street-level geocoding services [6] Provide a pluggable API for integrating with various mapping services (Yahoo, Google, ESRI, Microsoft, other?) [7] Driving directions [8] Local search (yellow-pages). Of course these could be significantly expanded to include full-blown GIS functionality eventually if such a need arose. -----Original Message----- From: Aleksei Valikov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 9:32 AM To: MyFaces Discussion Subject: Re: Sandox - Interactive Ajax Map 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
