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PloneWorldKit
Category: Educational, Geospatial
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- Alpha releases should only be used for testing and development.
- Beta releases and Release Candidates are normally released for production testing, but should not be used on mission-critical sites.
- Always install on a separate test server first, and make sure you have proper backups before installing.
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Project pagePloneWorldKit is a worldKit integration for CMFPlone.
worldKit is an easy to use and flexible mapping application for the Web. A light weight GIS. It's a SWF based app, configured by XML, data fed by RSS.
Usage:
- Mapping hometowns of university students
- An interface to collections of scientific field data
- Mapping local resources on corporate intranet
- Media Monitoring for within government agencies
- Engine for collaborative city annotation
- Mapping Photoblogging travels
- Mapping social networks and bloggers
Features of worldKit:
- Ubiquitous use in the Flash Player and with RSS feeds.
- Highly configurable look and feel. Can use images for marking annotations.
- Integrates with weblogging tools, and any software producing RSS.
- Annotations updated in the background, live.
- Displays photos within the map.
- Zoom & Pan. Integrates with Zoomify for high resolution images.
- Accepts input for Collaborative Cartography.
- Annotations are categorizable. Javascript interface for GIS layer functionality.
- Connects annotations for GPS track routes.
Features of PloneWorldKit:
- Integration of worldKit as a content type (Map)
- Complete TTW (Through The Web) configuration of worldKit attributes
- ZCatalog based XML and RSS generation (config.xml, rss.xml)
- 3 annotation content types (Node, Line, Polygon)
- Base classes for content type developers
- Categorization of annotations TTW
- Time Navigation out of the box using "modified" index
Map: A folderish content type that configures worldKit application and incorporates annotations. After adding a Map simply enter the name, title and description. Save and it works out of the box. For further configuration it is highly recommended to read the worldKit documentation !
Node: A categorizable annotation content type with coordinates.
Insert geo:lat & geo:long corrdinates manually or use worldKit's input mode
clicking the Annotation Input .. button.
Line & Polygon: Categorizable annotation content types that provide a list of coordinates.
