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Chris Brown wrote:
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">... The world of web
mapping as I see it has two camps: The
first camp which for lack of a better label I will call the ‘GIS
Camp’... And the second is what I
would call the ‘non-GIS camp’...<br>
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Make that three camps: there is at least one developer (me!) using
ka-Map for things it was not intended for, namely the display and
annotation of large raster images, mostly historical, only sometimes
"maps", with vector overlays to provide information, queries, etc. (see
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://vihistory-dev.uvic.ca/maps/htdocs/index.php">http://vihistory-dev.uvic.ca/maps/htdocs/index.php</a>). It works very well
for this, with a few enhancements and mods. While having the ka-Map
core redone with Prototype would be great, being able to load tiles
from external sources would be of little or no use to me, since the
linkage between base image and overlays is very tight, and in any case
there would likely be no external sources to load from. A narrow point
of view, to be sure, but all part of the discussion.<br>
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David<br>
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David Badke
Humanities Computing and Media Center
University of Victoria, BC, Canada</pre>
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