How to plug in worldKit for a slick web interface for MapServer or any WMS

and other interesting things

mikel maronworldkit@brainoff.com

Open Source Geospatial '05Minneapolis, MN

World as a Blog

Weblogs.com + GeoURL + RSS + Flash + Earth

http://brainoff.com/geoblog/

worldKit

A flash based application to build interactivemaps from RSS feeds.

http://brainoff.com/worldkit/

Geocoded RSS<rss version=”2.0”

xmlns:geo="http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#"><channel>

<item><title>Taqueria Vallarta</title><link>http://menustation.com/TaqueriaVallarta/</link><description>Get a super veggie burrito</description><geo:lat>36.97175</geo:lat><geo:long>-122.025373</geo:long>

</item>

</channel></rss>

http://brainoff.com/worldkit/doc/rss.php

Atom with Geotags<feed version="0.3" xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#">

<entry> <title>Taqueria Vallarta</title> <link href="http://menustation.com/TaqueriaVallarta/"/> <summary>

Get a super veggie burritogeo:lat=36.97175 geo:long=-122.025373

</summary></entry>

</feed>

config.xml and features<worldkitconf>

<width>695</width><height>550</height><displaytype>day</displaytype><dayimg>bluemarble.jpg</dayimg><dataurl>/weblogs/blogtalk/index.xml</dataurl><showonlynew>false</showonlynew><plotinterval>0</plotinterval><textinterval>0</textinterval><update>60</update><initialplotcolor>0xcc55ff<a_really_nice_place>0xFFFF44</a_really_nice_place>

<hotels>0xFFFFFF</hotels><museums_and_sites>0x11cc00</museums_and_sites><restaurants_and_pubs>0xffaa00</restaurants_and_pubs><transport>0x22aaFF</transport><wifi_hotspot>0xff0022</wifi_hotspot><shopping>0x000099</shopping></initialplotcolor>

<plotsize>8</plotsize><textsize>12</textsize><plotshape>circle</plotshape><textboxsize>100</textboxsize><north>48.2305</north><west>16.3319</west><south>48.1827</south><east>16.4203</east><annotateurl>/cgi-bin/moveabletype/mt.cgi?blogtalk=1&is_bm=1&bm_show=keywords,category&__mode=view&_type=entry</annotateurl>

</worldkitconf>

JRC Online Tsunami Simulator

http://tsunami.jrc.it/model/

Woody's Kayak Trips

http://www.kayaktrips.net/geo/

History of Urbanization

http://brainoff.com/worldkit/population/

But is it Open Source?

Flash

Mapserver and Flash

http://dl.maptools.org/dl/FlashMapserverUserDoc.html

http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MapserverFlash

WorldKit Mod to mapswf.c

http://tinyurl.com/8lkxjhttp://brainoff.com/worldkit/scratch/mapswf.c

WMS and worldKit<swftemplate

category="landsat"id="landsat3" tilewidth="376" tileheight="188" extent="-180,-90,180,90" spanx="16" spany="16" minview="4" maxview="50000" minscale="8" maxscale="16">http://onearth.jpl.nasa.gov/wms.cgi?request=GetMap&width=376&height=188&layers=modis,global_mosaic&styles=&srs=EPSG:4326&format=image/jpeg&bbox=WEST,SOUTH,EAST,NORTH

</swftemplate>

GML

http://brainoff.com/worldkit/scratch/gml/

mapufacture.com

del.icio.us osgeohttp://mapufacture.com/map.php?mapid=58http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/osgeo+geotagged/

Thanks!