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Andy Ackermann

Bachelor Thesis

Hey guys!

I’m doing my Bachelor Thesis and I’ve got a problem with Geoinformation System. The Topic of the thesis is the integration of a geoinformation system into a desktop application.

The geoinformation system has to fulfill the following requirements:

- Need to display customer data

- Need to be interactive (Customer can set point of interests on a map)

- Need to make road mapping

Which type of maps can I use in combination with GeoTools. Can I integrate the “google maps” maps?

I the GeoTools API a good solution for that problem?

Thanks for your help

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ajayravichandran

Re: Bachelor Thesis

I am a geotools amateur, but Open Street Maps is an open source map competitor to Google maps which can be used with geotools, only thing is you will need to convert the OSM format to GML using a converter. I am not very sure about google map because i always thought google map exposed a javascript API which essentially restraints it to the web, but again I am not very sure about this

Ajay Ravichandran

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 7:16 AM, Andy Ackermann <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hey guys!

I'm doing my Bachelor Thesis and I've got a problem with Geoinformation System. The Topic of the thesis is the integration of a geoinformation system into a desktop application.

The geoinformation system has to fulfill the following requirements:

-          Need to display customer data

-          Need to be interactive (Customer can set point of interests on a map)

-          Need to make road mapping

Which type of maps can I use in combination with GeoTools. Can I integrate the "google maps" maps?

I the GeoTools API a good solution for that problem?

Thanks for your help

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Jody Garnett

Re: Bachelor Thesis

In reply to this post by Andy Ackermann

GeoTools is a toolkit or library to help you work with spatial data; not
a desktop application. GeoTools is used in both server side applications
(look up GeoServer) and desktop applications (look up uDig).

You will find that the google map data is locked down to a javascript
API; you can make use of it in your own mash ups (look for OpenLayers in
order to get started), but in general it is not a suitable source of
data for a desktop application. Depending on what country you are in you
may find that public data is available to suit your needs.

Jody

Andy Ackermann wrote:

>
> Hey guys!
>
> I’m doing my Bachelor Thesis and I’ve got a problem with
> Geoinformation System. The Topic of the thesis is the integration of a
> geoinformation system into a desktop application.
>
> The geoinformation system has to fulfill the following requirements:
>
> - Need to display customer data
>
> - Need to be interactive (Customer can set point of interests on a map)
>
> - Need to make road mapping
>
> Which type of maps can I use in combination with GeoTools. Can I
> integrate the “google maps” maps?
>
> I the GeoTools API a good solution for that problem?
>
> Thanks for your help
>
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aaime

Re: Bachelor Thesis

In reply to this post by ajayravichandran

AJ R ha scritto:
> I am a geotools amateur, but Open Street Maps is an open source map
> competitor to Google maps which can be used with geotools, only thing is
> you will need to convert the OSM format to GML using a converter. I am
> not very sure about google map because i always thought google map
> exposed a javascript API which essentially restraints it to the web, but
> again I am not very sure about this

Yes, as far as I remember the license forbids any usage of Google Maps
data outside of a javascript client running inside a browser.

Cheers
Andrea

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