Cool New GIS Products
location based servicesTonight at the Seattle Plone users group meeting, Josh Livni of Umbrella Consulting showed off two really cool brand new products that bring GIS tools into Plone -- fast.
Tonight at the Seattle Plone users group meeting, Josh Livni of Umbrella Consulting showed off two really cool brand new products that bring GIS tools into Plone -- fast.
Pleiades OpenLayers brings OpenLayers, an open-source "slippy AJAX map" (think Google Maps) into Plone and makes it incredibly quick and simple to map Plone content against any base maps you can suck in over the internet, including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft maps or any WMS map server source.
Pleades Geocoder is a simple product that allows you to instantly use Yahoo's geocoding API geocode Plone members based on the "location" field. This can be trivially edited so that you can auto-geocode any content that has recognizable location to it.
The barriers to doing amazing AJAXy mapping applications in Plone are dissolving incredibly fast. Great stuff.
No comments:
Post a Comment