Creating a map application using the API

Describes how to create a map using the API.

In this section

Overview
- Presents the JViews Maps API.
Creating data source objects
- Describes how to create data source objects for vector and raster data sources.
Using data sources
- Describes how to use data sources.
Clearing map data
- Explains how to clear map data.
Developing a new data source
- Describes how to write to a data source
Printing
- Describes the classes provided for printing maps.
Overview of multithreading
- Describes the use of multithreading.
Using threads in tile loaders
- Explains how to load tiles asynchronously in separate threads for performance reasons.
Using threads in data sources
- Explains how to start a data source in a separate thread so that you can check when it has started.
Using the IlvThreadMonitor
- Explains how to monitor tasks running in separate threads.
Generic code sample for creating a map
- Explains how to create a basic map using a generic code sample.
Using readers
- Describes the predefined readers, the map loader for supported (predefined) formats, and how to write a new reader.
Map GUI interactors
- Contains information about the GUI map interactors on the Map Builder toolbar.
The See-Through interactor
- Describes the see-through interactor.
Using the GUI beans
- Describes the JavaBeans™ for GUIs with maps.
Handling map features
- Describes map features and how they are handled.
Using load-on-demand
- Describes load-on-demand and how to use it.
Manipulating renderers
- Describes the attributes of graphic objects that will be displayed and the use of renderers to transform map features to graphic objects.
Handling spatial reference systems
- Describes various conversions.
Pregenerating tiled images for a thin client
- Describes a class for thin clients.

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Programming with JViews Maps