[ZMapServer-Developers] ZCO and Plone/CMF

[Sean G. <sgi...@fr...>]

Hi all,

I'd like to start a discussion about use cases for ZCO (or mapping in 
general) and Plone or CMF.  Please feel free to jump in and add your 
own thoughts.

My immediate uses for mapping with Plone (I'm using that in one place 
instead of CMF) are these:

1) allow members of a portal to locate themselves on a portal-wide map 
by using a Geometry widget .  If you've looked at the ZCO demo you may 
have seen how I am doing this in Zope with a Catalog and a "geom" 
property that uses WKT formatted geometry like 'POINT (-107 41)'.

2) allow portals members to publish a small number of features to a 
portal-wide map for the purpose of a spatial "marketplace" -- comparing 
area of interest of a consumer to a producer's resources.  For this we 
would use a Plone/CMF content type that extended the CSV file mechanism 
in ZCO.

I have thought less about portal members creating their own maps, and 
would like to hear more from you about this use case.

cheers,
Sean

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Sean Gillies
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