hello, regarding decorating point maps:
for starters, is there currently a way to change the icon for point maps, replacing the little square with perhaps a circle, or triangle, or some other simple geometry? if so, can these be resized as well? if not, is there plans to implement this? expanding on decorating the points on point maps, what would be involved in being able to assign your own icons/images to point maps? and even further, what would be involved in being able to use multiple icons on the same point map? for example, let's say i wanted to create a point map of my address book, and wanted all of the personal cards/ contacts to be decorated with a little person icon, and all of the business cards/contacts to be decorated with a little building icon. can this be done through styling alone? or would it require a table in the db like 'icon' or something of similar name, having each record populated with it's respective icon type, like 'person' and/or 'business'. this would then require oj to read the data in that table and associate it with the respective icon in the library. or am i off- base here? i want to contract someone who can create a plug-in that takes and reads an address book(v-cards/.vcf), and then converts those contacts into individual records within a newly created point map. or, if the user wishes to use an existing point map, then the contacts would be imported into that existing point map. working for both shapefiles and postgresql. and vice-versa, being able to export one/some/all points to contacts/.vcf's for os x and to outlook for windows users. additionally, if the contact record has lat/long fields(coordinates), the plugin would then convert those v-cards with their correct geo- position, hence those points would be placed in their correct position on the map. for all the contacts that do not have coordinates, then those would be assigned a 0, 0 coordinate, or in the case of a user importing them into an existing point map with it's respective coordinates, then those contacts would be assigned the respective xmin, ymin coordinates. this way, the points/contacts are located within the same coordinates as does have the existing map, and are all in the same position on the map, so when browsing the table/data, it is clear to see which contacts do not have coordinates assigned them. imho, as it relates to POIs, and those people/businesses that collect data on people places and things, it will be important to have an easy way to move address book contacts to and from maps. maps like google, yahoo, etc., are mostly used by people to locate a person, place, or thing atop a map. but ironically, there is no easy way to move contacts to and from these maps, or to and from maps that are made by folks like ourselves who use gis tools like openjump, et, al. on the desktop computer(and in recent years the handheld/smart phone) contacts, calendars, and messaging are the staple applications used by most. recently we've all seen the success and practicality with mapping applications, namely google maps via the browser, along with google earth. between these, and the others like yahoo, microsoft, mapquest, and openstreetmaps, along with the desktop/native applications, mapping has become another staple application for the user. for those people and businesses who are collecting and maintaining geospatial data, they/we need tools that allow us to more easily manage the data, and more importantly... move the data back and forth between existing staple applications, like the address book and calendar for example. another shortcoming has to do with time, and the ability to side the timeline back into the past or forward into the future, having the map update to show what was, what is, and what is to be. again, this seems like a feature that is one of the more important features a gis software should have. personally, i often times need to see how many construction polygons existed for a certain month of a certain year, or how many points existed at this time or that time. the truth is, there are dozens of reasons why it is important to view information in the context of time, hence, a timeline seems only natural for a gis software application. similar to how oj has a zoom slider, it should also have a timeline slider that shows/hides records based on the file's time/date stamp, or time/dates of specific records. lastly, perhaps someone could clarify the following topic for me, as i am not a programmer, and therefore have not yet made sense of it. in previous list postings, a number of subscribers have been discussing the creation of plugins, and the modification of some core code, so that both kosmo and udig plugins will work in openjump, and vice versa. is this correct? or have i misunderstood the dialog? laymen clarification would be appreciated. and to add to this subject, other software like udig has made the move to eclipse, whilst qgis is locked into qt. is openjump going to do the same sometime soon? and if so, will it go the route of eclipse? thanks in advance for your comments/answers! regards, eric jarvies On Apr 1, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Eric Jarvies wrote: > testing list with different email address. please disregard this > post. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. 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