Have you looked at uDig, it is based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) and has many high level Spatial GUI elements that you can use to write your own plugin. I am sure the guys from the uDig project could say more but with its real native look and many plugins it is a better choice than starting from scratch.
-----Original Message----- From: WGPuckett [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 10:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Learning Geotools I need to develop a mapping application that provides a "moving map" for airborne units. It will work much like a Tom-Tom does, showing the current location and the progress the vehicle is making toward it's objective. But the maps are much more detailed and the vehicle is moving much faster than a road vehicle. In addition there are some other technical challenges. An airborne EMS unit making an emergency call has a real difficulty finding the exact location. Most of the time they circle the area and wait for someone on the ground to show them where it is. We solve that by utilizing high resolution geo rectified imagery and showing the immediate area with a star over the destination. This application will be a Windows SWING ap with several active windows. -Window 1 shows a street level map of the current location of the airborne vehicle and moves as the vehicle moves. -Window 2 shows an aviation related map of the surrounding area (obstructions, prohibited flyover, etc). It also moves as the vehicle moves -Window 3 shows the destination. Typically this is the hi-res imagery with the street names and parcel lines overlayed Step one is to just be able to display a street/parcel map, accept input from a GPS unit and show where I am on the map. Yeah, any Garmin can do that. But that would put me at a point of having a grasp on the API and would be able to demo it as a proof of concept. I have to convince the management that this can be done in Java. They are convinced it has to be done in C++. The maps will be fixed with specific layers and characteristics. I was hoping it might be possible to pre-process the mapping data involved and store an intermediate file that could help reduce the processing required for the application in flight. Also I was wondering if it might be possible to "streamline" the code and remove code that will never be used within the application. If someone could provide some hints as to which modules I need to concentrate on and where in the processing of the mapping data I might be able to generate intermediate data stores to improve performance I would be greatly in your debt. I plan to dig into the code to see where and what might be done to improve performance for my specific need. I will be more than happy to donate any specific code changes I make that could be used to improve the tool. I'm not asking anyone to solve this for me. But I could spend weeks and months just figuring out what series of modules are involved and how they fit together. I am hoping someone might be able to help me skip some of that process. -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Learning-Geotools-tp1941952p3049925.html Sent from the geotools-gt2-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Geotools-gt2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Geotools-gt2-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-gt2-users
