> I'm just getting into GIS, so don't know much about data (yet), but I > would love to help you write a global map component. I was going to > build my component on top of ActionStep (Scott and Rich and really > turned up ActionStep in the last few weeks) and have it integrate with > mapserver (all open source solution).
i'm also very new to gis. lot's of stuff to discover, and an interesting topic for sure. > Were you intending your component to integrate with MapServer? My > Flex knowledge is poor but would it be possible to have a component > with ActionStep and Flex interfaces? I've written on of these map > components before and they're pretty simple once you get the > communication interface down. well i guess the idea would be to keep it as independent from the various frameworks as possible. basically a class library that you can plugin wherever you like. i saw the mapserver project (there even is already a flash frontend.. [1]), but didn't dig further yet. [1] http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/user_utilities/fmv.zip as for what exactly i'm planning: nothing very sophisticated. i'm just playing around, as far as time permits. basically i just wanted to do a simple component that displays a zoomable world map, without much projection hassles and without need for specialized backends. quite simple stuff. although a full blown open source gis solution sounds like a challenging project. cheers, claus. _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
