PloneWorldKit

Update: Flash is out-dated technology - other modules like Products.Maps or collective.geo are recommended for map integrations.

Project Description

PloneWorldKit 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.

Current Release

No stable release available yet.