Well, we found something new today. This guy will actually do tons of work to clean up polygons. It is what PostGres GIS was modeled after and converted from and is a live project. Here is a link http://www.vividsolutions.com/jts/discussion.htm . As it is a Java app and i have some java backend stuff to do [...]
Archive for the ‘polygons’ Category
26 Mar
Less expensive Polygons
As i grow to love this software more and more, i find different things that can take away from the user experience. I have found that putting polygons on the screen(mostly zip code polygons) is expensive if you use oh about 250 or more. I am working on ways around this and we are figuring [...]
7 Feb
Find Edges of Polygon
Ok so over the last couple of days we have come up with a solution to grab information to do some caching. One of the things that I am doing is figuring out where i need to move to grab the next set of data. Well i wrote a little something i will post as [...]
21 Dec
Polygons and labels
So there is more to report when it comes to throwing Poly’s on the screen. Well, it looks like there is not a great way to do labels for your poly’s which stinks, but there are work arounds i am sure. I posted something on this in the forums on MapQuest site with a response [...]
20 Dec
Back to school on Polygons and map placement, (HI OverlayCollection)
Ok, so i am back to working on the UI for the map so my customers can really be effective with the way it sits. Until today whenever i put a polygon on the screen i just wrote it straight to the map, so something like
myMap.addOverlay(myOverlay);
This is good and all, but here is the problem. [...]
