On 2/13/07, Chad Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have any ideas/requests for features then now is the time to send > those to me. Also if you wish to help then let me know. I currently have > plans for concordance and commentary integration, notes, verse/passage > highlighting, and perhaps usage of the Google Maps API - but progress > depends highly on the amount of interest I receive.
I suspect that the Google Maps API would not be quite so easy to put into a desktop application as it could be. At a minimum you would probably want to embed wxMozilla and use it to display the resultant maps. I would really prefer to have a desktop based mapping tool which worked on all the major front-ends, but such a thing could be difficult to achieve. If you want an example of Biblical Google Maps integration, look at http://www.biblemap.org. Below is a comment made to a Bibletime feature request for map support: "It would be a great idea for all Sword applications to support such a thing. However, this leads to a few interesting questions as to how you implement it. Obviously the GUIs of the different applications are different, so there would have to be a view for each GUI (unless you want to use static images of maps, which could potentially be displayed by the different GUIs relatively easily). There are always the problems of finding the right data, and figuring out how to display it. It would be preferable to have some link between names in the Bible text and the map, but doing this can be problematic when names are spelt differently in different versions, and especially different languages. NB: If you are looking for a Bible / Bible map linkage and don't mind the fact that it's on the web, look at www.biblemap.org. It uses Google Maps for its map component." Jon _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
