Important news first: The application goes now by the name Geoclipse.

Since the last update I implemented a GPS plug-in that shows your current position in the map through an attached GPS receiver. Also I am preparing a release on Sourceforge now.

The icons used are from http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/.

That's how it currently looks

Stay tuned!

I made a basic Eclipse application and product out of my SWT port of the mapviewer. It can run standalone without any external dependency to the Eclipse IDE.

Since the last post I ported the last important part that was still left: the rendering code for waypoints.

I also fixed some bugs, did a bigger refactoring and cleaned up some design issues. The tile loading logic should be a bit better now. I’m near a release now, but I want to implement one feature before. That’ll be showing your position in the map through a GPS unit.

If you’re really keen enough, you can check it out from Subversion at https://ssl.byteholder.de/svn/gps https://geoclipse.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/geoclipse.

My Mapviewer port is now running stable enough, that I created an Eclipse Plug-In using it.

Most things, like pan and zoom, work. The threading issues are also ironed out. It’s not ready for a release yet, though. Still missing is support for overlays.

A picture says a thousand words:

Today I began to port the JXMapViewer component to SWT. After an afternoon of work, it is basically working.

However I did not yet port the listeners that are responsible for moving the map around when the user drags it with the mouse. There are also many bugs to iron out, for example there are some issues with threading.

Next step is to finalize the implementation and to write an example Eclipse plugin using it.