[Geotools-gt2-users] Simple map with points

[Sami D. <sk...@fr...>]

Hi,

Geotools seems to be a very powerful and fancy Java library :) However, g=
etting
started with it does not seem such an easy task..
So, I'm posting here in the hope someone will have time to give me some
guidelines.

Here's what I need to do :
- Have Geotools display a map (of the world if possible, but I'll revert =
to
Canada if it's too hard to find such a map). I should be able to get the =
ESRI
shapefile for Canada, but any indication about how to get maps under othe=
r
formats is welcome. I'm actually looking for something nice-looking, that=
's
pretty much all I'm interested in, whatever it displays...
- On the map, I'd like to draw points for some latitude longitude.
I'm not interested in any zooming or any complicated feature. just basic
display.

So, this use of Geotools seems to be very basic compared to everythign it=
 can
do, however I don't seem to get a clear indication of how to achieve this=
 :
- Which jars do I need ? (there are 30 or 40 jars in the binary distribut=
ion, I
don't think all of them are necessary, right ?)
- how to embed a simple map inside a JFrame ?

Thanks a lot,
Sami Dalouche

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