Re: Fwd: gtk & gis

[Pierre-Luc Beaudoin <pierre-luc pierlux com>]

On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 21:43 +0200, Andrea Zagli wrote:
> do you know some widget that can display maps (from shp or postgis)
> and also allows very simple editing?

As Emmnanuel already pointed out, there is libchamplain [1] that is
aiming at being a full fledged map widget.  Right now, you cannot draw
from postgis or shp data, but Simon Wenner is working as a summer of
code to provide local rendering using libmemphis.  Nothing could stop
you to implement your own ChamplainMapSource within your application
which would render the PostGis data to a ClutterCairo texture.

There is no editing either, but the map is fully interactive so you
could program interactions using common events such as click, mouse move
and other.

If you have more questions, feel free to join the party on #champlain on
the mailing list: libchamplain-list gnome org

Pierre-Luc

[1] http://projects.gnome.org/libchamplain/