Re: [Geotools-gt2-users] Simple map with points

[Jody G. <jga...@re...>]

Sami Dalouche wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Geotools seems to be a very powerful and fancy Java library :) However, getting
>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 other
>formats is welcome. I'm actually looking for something nice-looking, that's
>pretty much all I'm interested in, whatever it displays...
>  
>
Perhaps you should consider uDig? http://udig.refractions.net/

>- 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 distribution, I
>don't think all of them are necessary, right ?)
>- how to embed a simple map inside a JFrame ?
>  
>
You make consider looking at the tutorials - in particular the 
"spearfish demo"