[bd-users] [sword-devel] Map Idea

[Brent Coffey]

All,

Well over the last couple of days I have been thinking about how to go about this in the best possible way.  While doing that I "stumbled" over an another idea.  Why not write a new Bible desktop using the eclipse Rich Client Platform, after all it's not just for IDE's.  Look here for more information:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Rich_Client_Platform

The beauty of this would be that all the projects like the one I'm purposing with the map would lust be plug-ins and this would fullfill part of the Jsword roadmap of creating a more dynamic GUI.

still thinking...

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> From: carlopeterson at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 02:28:42 -0400
> To: bibledesktop-users at crosswire.org
> Subject: Re: [bd-users] [sword-devel] Map Idea
> 
> 
> On Mar 26, 2008, at 2:16 AM, Jonathan Morgan wrote:
>>
>> It still hasn't solved your problem.  We can create map data in RDF
>> with little dificulty.  We can link it to verses with little
>> difficulty.  We can probably use that data with a tool like Google
>> Maps fairly easily, or draw maps using other methods with somewhat
>> more difficulty.  But we still need to add support for processing map
>> annotation data.  Just adding a generalised annotation framework
>> hasn't solved our specific case.  Developing a good UI to annotations
>> means more than showing the user that we have lots of KML data (or
>> other data) associated with this verse.  It means interpreting the
>> data in some way, and the way of interpreting it is likely to be
>> somewhat different for each kind of data.
> 
> What about using something similar to the HTML image-map structure  
> for links, only use it to define geometries to plot to the image?  
> While a lot of discussion has been put toward using Google Maps or  
> Google Earth to display information, it may be easier to define a  
> static image (a base-map, which contains no annotations except  
> universal annotations such as scale and a north arrow) and  
> coordinates on that image to place points, lines, polygons or text.   
> Presumably, this would be tied to the text at the verse or paragraph  
> level, with some way of user-selecting which graphics are viewed  
> (similar to current mapping software).  Within a given context (such  
> as a chapter or a single narrative), all verse and/or paragraph-level  
> data would refer to the same base-map, so that objects can be  
> overlaid (such as using the same base-map for Joshua 13-21, so that  
> the "big picture" of the division of Canaan can be seen). This would  
> also move the feature away from a solution dependent on an internet  
> connection, which is not available everywhere where this feature  
> would be useful.
> 
> Carl Peterson
> 
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