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The Design of a Rich Spatial Flex Viewer for GeoWeb 2.0
Despite all the movement toward Web 2.0, GeoWeb is still in the Web 1.0 age. In the quest to establish the Geospatial Web or GeoWeb 2.0, a rich spatial Flex Viewer has been created, and it’s free. All source code is included, and it can be extended via a simple widget programming model.
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Web map has become an important utility of our daily life. We use it to plan a trip for directions, we use it to virtually walk around a city in 3D, we use it to find an apartment or a house from map mashup applications and so on. What if we want to ask more complicate questions to the web map, questions such as "How many Starbucks stores within 5 miles range of a dream house I can't take my eyes off, and I can drive to some of those stores in 3 minutes from the dream house?" Obviously for questions like this, merely putting markers/push-pins on the map is not enough.
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Microsoft released Silverlight 2.0 beta 1 at MIX08 last week. Comparing to Silverlight 1.1, the 2.0 beta 1 release has significant improvements and changes. To evaluate the state of Silverlight 2.0 as a RIA development tool, I wrote a mashup...
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The RIA world has been seeing intensified competition since last year's releases of Microsoft Silverlight and Sun JavaFX, which joined the Adobe Flex/AIR to become the major RIA development platforms. Even though all three of them intent to reach the the same goal, richer user experience and more creative media delivering, the technologies behind them are vast different. But how different from a RIA developer's perspective? Let's do a quick comparison by writing a small program on these three platforms.


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