Re: [nebula-dev] SWT MapWidget

[Wim Jongman <wim.jongman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Stephan,

I have looked at the webstart example. Cool stuff !!

I am not sure to what extend I will be able to support/maintain it, but certainly I would be available for some basic stuff.

We cannot accept code that is not being maintained. I hope you understand. You need to maintain it at least until it becomes stable. We do have an incubation area where widgets like yours can mature.

I will go through the contribution questionnaire once a login or some other means is provided.

You must create an eclipse account [1] and then file a bug against Nebula core and attach your source code to the bug. Please take this bug [2] as an example. 

 

I can confirm that I am the sole creator of the code (based on my own Swing Version of MapPanel) and there is no pending legal or copyright issues whatsoever. All necessary permissions (EPL etc) would be granted to the Nebula project if you are interested. I certainly would appreciate it if you could share it with others.

This text needs to go into the bug.

 

The Tiles-Data still must come from some tile-server, the defaults have their own usage conditions, but everything has to stay in reasonable bounds. (e.g. no world downloads for offline iPhone map-browsing and the like). Since MapWidget does some caching its use of Tiles is fair.

Getting a subscription on a tile server is something between the user and the provider of the tile server, right?

Please see the contribution page on our wiki for the complete overview of steps needed to get your widget in Nebula [3]

[1] https://dev.eclipse.org/site_login/createaccount.php

[2] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=365948

[3] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Nebula/New_Contributions

Best regards,

Wim