[Chameleon] Geocoding Point Widget...

[Massimiliano Cannata]

Hi Tim,
actually I was thinking about a widget that is rendered with different 
input fields for real time geocoding an address.
The result of the widget action could be zoom into the entered address 
and show the point on the map.
In order to do it general (not only for US or Other countries) the 
address to geocode should include details about the 
country/state/city/street/number as you can probably find more location 
with the same name around the word.
With these parameters passed to the widget you should be able to set up 
some of this field with a default value and not to render the relative 
input field in the  application.

Maxi
 


Nolte, Tim wrote:
> Hey Max,
>
> I would definitely release with using Google Maps API only. Actually, I
> could go so far as to support Yahoo & MapQuest API's as well and have
> widget parameters that can select the API service to use. I'm assuming
> when you talk about having the choice of nation/region/street you mean
> geocode quality. I wasn't aware that you could select a geocode quality
> to use with Google's API, I do know that when it returns the result is
> returns also the geocode quality that is used. As soon as I can I'll
> work on generalizing the widget a bit more and throw it out there for
> people to try. I'm wondering where the best place is to put up the
> widget. It would be nice if there was a Widget repository somewhere that
> people could use to share widgets that they've developed.
>
> - Tim
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Massimiliano Cannata [mailto:massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch] 
>> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 1:47 PM
>> To: Nolte, Tim
>> Cc: chameleon at lists.maptools.org
>> Subject: Re: [Chameleon] Geocoding Point Widget...
>>
>> Definitively interested.
>> I was thinking at something similar....
>> Why don't directly call google api, parse and get the lat 
>> long, convert 
>> in current projection and render or zoom in?
>> The widget could ask for a google key parameters...
>> An the render should include a choiche of Nation, Region, Street, 
>> number, etc....
>> in the case in the widget nation is specifyed the widget will not ask 
>> for it as an input...
>>
>> Make sense?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Maxi
>>
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>> Dr. Massimiliano Cannata
>> Environmental & Geomatic Engineer
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>> Institute of Earth Scences - SUPSI
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