Flamingo MapComponents: new release of interactive map system for broad target group
Wednesday April 11th 2007
Filed Under Flamingo MapComponents
IOG-Geo, the Inter Provincial Organisation in which the 12 Dutch Provinces are working together in the field of geo-information and GIS, announces a new release of Flamingo MapComponents an interactive map system for broad target group.
With Flamingo MapComponents, organisations can share their geo-information as user-friendly interactive maps. Flamingo MapComponents is a powerful and interactive map system, and it offers an accessible package for map viewing. This modular system will be developed further by a community.
The current development status is Release Candidate 1.
Flamingo, the open source map viewer Provinces in the Netherlands use as a risk map and which has been deployed for a number of other uses, has been improved significantly on a number of points. Flamingo MapComponents is an open, flexible and accessible system for a broad audience.
Flamingo MapComponents is available in English, and is able to connect to multiple data sources. This means that one single map image can be created from several map services. The modularity has also been increased, meaning the viewer can be used in many different ways.
Thanks to the interaction between Javascript and Flamingo a map can very easily be integrated in a website. Furthermore, several map components are easily and simultaneously operated with one clear navigation bar.
The future success partly depends on the community. The community will have to grow and develop in line with the software. Up until now, the project has been kept rather small-scale, but the developers are working to set up an extensive community around Flamingo MapComponents.
At www.Flamingo-mc.org users can share their experiences with Flamingo MapComponents and their own map services with the rest of the community.This way, the site will be updated continuously with examples, how-to’s, and documentation.
Flamingo MapComponents is available in English and it supports the WMS, one of the worldwide open standards for web mapping by the Open Geospatial Consortium (www.opengeospatial.org). The system is open source with a GPL-licence.For more information about Flamingo MapComponents, visit the website www.Flamingo-mc.org. Anyone who is interested in Flamingo and wants to know more about it, will find this site a valuable source of information. Flash developers and web experts will find technical information and possible updates on the site.Contact:
R.S.W. (Ron) Wardenier
Chairman of the Flamingo Change Advisory Board