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Posted to users@myfaces.apache.org by Julian Ray <ju...@c2glogistics.com> on 2006/05/07 16:23:39 UTC
Sandox - Interactive Ajax Map
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.
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
Re: Sandox - Interactive Ajax Map
Posted by Emmanouil Batsis <Em...@eurodyn.com>.
Aleksei Valikov wrote:
> 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.
+1 on that.
Manos
RE: Sandox - Interactive Ajax Map
Posted by Julian Ray <ju...@yahoo.com>.
Hi Lexi,
I certainly agree with you as an (ex) geoinsider myself :). However, While
Yahoo maps, mapquest, google etc. are not true GIS's I do tend to think that
there is valuable place for them in business as tools for quick address
verification, rendering of contextual and spatially juxtaposed information
etc., and as a basic component of a "complete" customer management systems'
toolkit. IMHO, where ESRI, Intergraph and other true GIS vendors tend to
fail (from a business perspective) is in providing light-weight, cost
effective simple mapping tools with rich overlays suitable for
non-geoinsiders to use -- sometimes you just want a map!. MapPoint is
perhaps the most focussed on business needs but suffers from the cost
persepctive.
-----Original Message-----
From: Aleksei Valikov [mailto:valikov@gmx.net]
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 10:19 AM
To: MyFaces Discussion
Subject: Re: Sandox - Interactive Ajax Map
Hi.
> 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:
[...]
My perspective may be a bit "geoinsider" perspective, but I think that
Google Maps or Yahoo Maps are just nice toys. They're fun to use, but they
hardly fit professional applications. Of course, JSFying them is a progress,
and this is a nice thing to do, but you should be aware that professional
market needs more powerful tools.
In the Web GIS field, a dream would be a framework like Community Map
Builder fully JSFied. Map viewer itself and all of the controls implemented
as JSF components so that you could do something like:
<m:mapViewer wms="wms.xml" boundingBox="#{myBean.boundingBox}">
<m:pan/>
<m:zoomIn/>
<m:zoomOut/>
<m:zoomFull/>
<m:selectBox value="#{myBean.selectBox}"/>
<m:selectPolygon value="#{myBean.selectPolygon}"/>
<m:distanceMeasurementTool/>
</m:mapViewer>
Bye.
/lexi
Re: Sandox - Interactive Ajax Map
Posted by Aleksei Valikov <va...@gmx.net>.
Hi.
> 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:
[...]
My perspective may be a bit "geoinsider" perspective, but I think that Google
Maps or Yahoo Maps are just nice toys. They're fun to use, but they hardly fit
professional applications. Of course, JSFying them is a progress, and this is a
nice thing to do, but you should be aware that professional market needs more
powerful tools.
In the Web GIS field, a dream would be a framework like Community Map Builder
fully JSFied. Map viewer itself and all of the controls implemented as JSF
components so that you could do something like:
<m:mapViewer wms="wms.xml" boundingBox="#{myBean.boundingBox}">
<m:pan/>
<m:zoomIn/>
<m:zoomOut/>
<m:zoomFull/>
<m:selectBox value="#{myBean.selectBox}"/>
<m:selectPolygon value="#{myBean.selectPolygon}"/>
<m:distanceMeasurementTool/>
</m:mapViewer>
Bye.
/lexi
RE: Sandox - Interactive Ajax Map
Posted by Julian Ray <ju...@yahoo.com>.
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:valikov@gmx.net]
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
Re: Sandox - Interactive Ajax Map
Posted by Aleksei Valikov <va...@gmx.net>.
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
Posted by Julian Ray <ju...@yahoo.com>.
Interesting, thanks for the link. My control pretty much does the same
except it has a pluggable geocode component and uses Yahoo's maps not
Google's (yet). Very similar functionality though.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruno Aranda [mailto:brunoaranda@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 5:50 AM
To: MyFaces Discussion
Subject: Re: Sandox - Interactive Ajax Map
Although I haven't tried it, you can also have a look at the Google Map
Viewer Component from Java Blueprints AJAX components [1].
Regards,
Bruno
[1] https://blueprints.dev.java.net/ajaxcomponents.html
On 5/8/06, FSchaare <fs...@htp-tel.de> wrote:
> Hi Julian,
>
>
> > 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.
> sounds very interessting.
> We have an ESRI ArcIMS running and are in need of a JSF map viever.
> This task is very special and there´s not very much information about it.
>
> ESRI provides an (unsupported) JSF example viewer made by Sekhar Kafle
> who has a pretty cool blog (http://kafle.blogspot.com/). That´s nearly
> everything i found about JSF and Maps.
>
> Please make that donation, maybe we can help extending that control.
>
> CU
>
Re: Sandox - Interactive Ajax Map
Posted by Bruno Aranda <br...@gmail.com>.
Although I haven't tried it, you can also have a look at the Google
Map Viewer Component from Java Blueprints AJAX components [1].
Regards,
Bruno
[1] https://blueprints.dev.java.net/ajaxcomponents.html
On 5/8/06, FSchaare <fs...@htp-tel.de> wrote:
> Hi Julian,
>
>
> > 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.
> sounds very interessting.
> We have an ESRI ArcIMS running and are in need of a JSF map viever. This
> task is very special and there´s not very much information about it.
>
> ESRI provides an (unsupported) JSF example viewer made by Sekhar Kafle
> who has a pretty cool blog (http://kafle.blogspot.com/). That´s nearly
> everything i found about JSF and Maps.
>
> Please make that donation, maybe we can help extending that control.
>
> CU
>
Re: Sandox - Interactive Ajax Map
Posted by FSchaare <fs...@htp-tel.de>.
Hi Julian,
> 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.
sounds very interessting.
We have an ESRI ArcIMS running and are in need of a JSF map viever. This
task is very special and there´s not very much information about it.
ESRI provides an (unsupported) JSF example viewer made by Sekhar Kafle
who has a pretty cool blog (http://kafle.blogspot.com/). That´s nearly
everything i found about JSF and Maps.
Please make that donation, maybe we can help extending that control.
CU