Map API for Java Swing

Question

I want to visualise the geographic map in the swing application. I found only swingx map api.

Do you know other open-source map api?

Battleship

Answer 1

Try Geotools, it has a good API and tools for geospatial data.

Molybdenum

sure, if you have .shp files you can display them – Molybdenum

Feras, do you know this map api provide us to generate our own .shp file with specific area forexample: Greece Map. and do you have any example about adding graphic item to this map view? – Battleship

Answer 2

You could use this mappanel in Swing:

http://mappanel.sourceforge.net/

This is completely open source.

together with openstreetmap.org maps.

Aeschylus

Hi Chris, Thx for your reply, could you give me any information about whether this library can work offline? – Battleship

I dont think that you can use this offline as it is. But OpenStreetmap uses a tileserver which is used by this library. So i'm sure you could (with not too much afford) implement some kind of offline TileServer class or something like that. – Aeschylus

Answer 3

A little late, but here is a solution:

Slippy maps for Java Swing GUIs: SwingX-WS

Valeryvalerye

Answer 4

hey have a look at SVG Batik of Apache at http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/ . I built an interactive game with svg file for country location on an african map.

Hope this helps.

Shrewish