83 thoughts on “mapjfx”

1. Hi P.J.

   Thank you so much for developing this library!

   Currently, I’m struggeling to use it with SceneBuilder. I download your mapjfx-2.8.0-12.jar provided in the “Downloads folder” and then imported into Scene Builder using the “Import Jar/FMXL file” but it seems there are no items to import and I don’t see the control in the Customs tab.

   Any step-by-step guide about how to install Mapjfx?

   Using Eclipse 2020-09 (4.17.0), Java™ SDK 8 (Update 271) and JavaFX Scene Builder 2.0

   Thank you very much!

   Mac

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7. Hi Peter,

   Thanks for your excellent job with mapjfx. It’s really well done and useful. I originally had trouble displaying the map in your test application, but updated to jdk1.8.0_131, and it worked fine.

   I’m stuck on what I hope is a simple problem – is there any way to get the visible extents of the map?

   Best wishes

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   • Hi Gregg,

     not at the moment, I openend a ticket for that (https://github.com/sothawo/mapjfx/issues/37). I might even manage to implement this this weekend.

     best
     P.J.

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   • Hi Gregg,

     see https://www.sothawo.com/2018/06/mapjfx-version-1-17-0-reporting-the-maps-extent-and-using-openlayers-4-6-5/

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     • P.J.,

       I just updated to 1.17.0, and it seems to work perfectly. Thanks so much for the update!

       Gregg.

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8. Hi, I have a question about openlayers and webview. Have you ever successfully showed heatmap with webview, like the example in page https://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/heatmap-earthquakes.html?

   I can see the heatmap in a firefox browser. But in webview it has no effect at all, without any error messages.

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   • Hi,
     I just opened this URL in a small JavaFX app that has only a webview component and nothing else and the heatmap renders. So I see no problem there. Did you try the polyfill script that is used in the OpenLayers example?

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12. Hi, Peter.

    Sorry for the delayed response, I’ve had a lot of work lately. I have tested the functionality to select a map extent and it works correctly. Thank you very much for the help!

    Yesterday I was looking for information about this functionality in openlayers and found this: http://harrywood.co.uk/maps/examples/openlayers/bbox-selector.view.html. This example illustrates exactly what I need.

    It would be great if you could use it to update the existing implementation.

    Thanks in advance and greetings.

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    • Hello Michel,

      this example is pretty interesting, especially the possibility to refine the rectangle. But it also is using a -several-steps-approach (set selecting mode, select rectangle, finish selection) which I think is an alternative and not an improvement to the selection I implemented. Please feel free to open an issue for this in the GitHub issue tracker (together with the link to the example), but I can’t tell when I will find time to look into this – starting with a new job next month, will be quite busy.

      greetings
      Peter

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      • Ok, thanks for answering and congratulations for the new job

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13. Hello,

    Just downloaded the sources for the mapjfx demo, compiled in maven and ran the demo.

    The application runs but the map tiles do not appear. I have tried this at home and in my work place with the same results.

    I am also using the latest JDK i.e. u131, running on windows 10 64 bit.

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    • Hi Sean,

      do you run the application from within an IDE or from the commandline? There was a comment thread on the page for mapjfx-demo (https://www.sothawo.com/projects/mapjfx-demo/#comment-361) where finally the solution was to run the app with the JRE and not the JDK, which I cannot reproduce because I always test it on OSX and Windows using the JDK (but on windows I just build the maven project and run the programs from the commandline).

      But please read the linked discussion, check the part about cache en/disabling. If this does not help, please write again, so we can find out what’s going wrong.

      greetings
      Peter

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16. Hello,
    I have a question:
    Is it possible to calculate distance between two points or get a area around a point?

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    • Hello,

      mapjfx has no such possibility as it’s purpose is displaying maps, markers etc. To calculate the distance between two coordinates when you have latitude and longitude values I’d recommend some gis libs or you could check the answers at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3715521/how-can-i-calculate-the-distance-between-two-gps-points-in-java.

      To have mapjfx display areas like squares or circles, please create an issue in the GitHub repository, I will then check when I can implement such features.

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19. Returning to a project that I used your libraries on last year with much success. It looks like I have an issue with downloading map data but really have no way to debug why it would not work. I have disabled caching for the time being. Any suggestion on where to start digging?

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    • Hi Adam,

      glad that you could use the lib.

      What map do you use? I know that there are problems with caching when using Bing or WMS, I have up to now had no time for deeper investigation. I have opened an issue for that (https://github.com/sothawo/mapjfx/issues/19), could you add information what type of map you are using to that issue? Thanks a lot.

      Peter

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      • I’m not using WMS or Bing, just OSM. I haven’t changed anything (except to disable caching right now) with the code. My project is based on 1.7.0, but I checked the mapjfx-demo both 1.12.0 and 1.7.0 and neither seem to want to download maps tiles for me. Looking at the logs for the mapjfx-demo I see a bunch of “should open connection to https://c.tile.openstreetmap.org/12/2142/1407.png” and similar for different tiles but no tiles shown in the JavaFX window.

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21. Hello again, another question here. I want to be able to select a rectangular area of the map and get its bounding box. Taking the mouse to a point on the map and then click and drag the mouse to draw a square or rectangle on the map. Something like the option “set custom dimensions” in the “share” menu of the OSM site http://www.openstreetmap.org. The idea is to select the area and download the tiles belonging to it using WMS as a source, through a program that I am developing in Java.
    Any idea how to do this?

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    • Hi Michel,

      this is not possible at the moment, as the press and hold while moving is interpreted as panning the map by OpenLayers. If I would implement this as rectangular selection, I would loose the panning.

      I think I could program this, but I would need some method to explicitly switch from one mode (panning) to a different one (area-selection).

      Would it be a possible solution for you to set the MapView to a ‘selection mode’ by your program and after selecting to reset it to ‘panning mode’? I could implement something like a MapViewDragMode to support that.

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      • Hi, Peter,
        Yes, I could perfectly switch between these modes (pan / area selection) using a button on the interface. That’s not a problem for me. Currently I have to enter the coordinates of the selected area by hand and having this new functionality would save me a lot of time and errors. The ideal solution would be something like the functionality present in OSM that I mentioned before. But it does not matter, your variant is totally valid and easier to reach.

        Thanks for the quick response and regards. We are in contact

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        • Hi Michel,

          I just opened an issue for that in the GitHub project; I hope, I get this done this week.

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        • Hi Michel,

          I just released the next version; I did not use a toggle, as OpenLayers supports a dragBox interaction by using cmd/ctrl (Mac OSX/Windows)-drag, I just use this and pass it on to the Java layer.

          Hope it fits your needs

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          • Thank you very much Peter. Now I’m busy with a lot of work. As soon as I have a little time I will update my project with the latest version of the mapjfx library. After I play a little with the area selection I’ll tell you how it was 🙂

            Regards.

            Michel

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22. Hi and congratulations for your excellent work. I hope you can help me with a doubt. How can I capture the clicked coordinate when I make a secondary click on the MapView? Because I need to display a context menu with different options to perform spatial operations using that coordinate.
    I’ve looked for different solutions, but none worked for me. In addition, OpenLayers 3.x does not have an event for the secondary click on the map as OpenLayers 2.x.
    Might you help me?
    Thanks in advance.

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    • Hello and thanks,

      You’re luck; Just today I wanted to start adding secondary clicks and mousedown and mouseup events to the MapView itself (I added it to the markers and labels lately). So just wait a little till the next version comes around.

      greetings
      Peter

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      • Thanks a lot! I’ll be waiting then

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      • I recently updated my project to the latest version of mapjfx and now I can capture the secondary click on the mapview. Everything works great. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!! You’re the best

        Greetings

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        • You’re welcome!

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23. It worked!!! Thank you very much, now I can use the WMS of my company. Unfortunately, this service is not public and you will not be able to access it outside the domain of my company. However, I leave you a link of a public WMS that you can use for your development:

    http://www.iderc.cu/geoserver/gwc/service/wms

    You can access a viewer that consumes this service at:

    http://www.iderc.cu/web/iderc/visor

    others here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WMS#Public_WMS_Servers

    Thanks again and greetings!

    PS: I had to disable the local cache to get the tiles online, because if it does not find it in the local cache does not make the request. This can be configurable so that if the tile is not cached it searches online?

    I’m sorry for the delay

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    • Hi,

      I noticed that with the two examples I used, I had to switch off offline caching as well; not sure why this is. But the offline cache intercepting I programmed is something deep in the bowels of networking, I will check this when I find more time. At the moment, alas, you will to have to use the lib without caching.

      I hope this will not introduce too slow loading times.

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    • addition: normally, when the tile is not in the local cache, MapView will fetch it from the server. I do not know why this is not working in these cases.

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      • Hello, thank you very much for the quick response. Do not worry, I can work perfectly without the cache, since that does not slow down my solution. Now I have another question:
        Currently, the mapview responds to events related to the primary click. I need to get the selected coordinate when I click on the mapview, just like the other click. How could I do that?
        Thanks in advance.

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        • PD: Do the same actions with the secondary click as the primary click

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          • Sorry for my English, the problem is that I accidentally cut the sentence, and I could not turn back. I’m from a Spanish speaking country and I do not speak English very well, I’m sorry if sometimes I do not communicate correctly. Sincerely Leandry

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24. Hi, I recently downloaded your Github project and found it an excellent job. Currently, I work on my grade thesis and I need to render a map using WMS and JavaFX, so I thought about using MapJFX. However, the project currently only allows to consume OSM and Bing maps. Could you advise me on how to modify the project to use the WMS of my company? Thanks in advance and congratulations for your work.

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    • Hi,

      you would basically need to add the code for the WMS map in the JSMapView.prototype.setMapType function. OpenLayers supports tiles server (http://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/wms-tiled.html?q=wms) and image server (http://openlayers.org/en/latest/examples/wms-image.html). The needed parameters like server url and other stuff you would need to pass into the Java MapView object and from there into the Javascript layer like it is done with the BING API key.

      Do you you know a publically reacheable WMS server that works like the one of your company? That would give me the possibility to integrate WMS support into the library. (Actually I am not a GIS specialist, but just a programmer, so if you can give me an URL to work against, that would be a great help).

      Anyway, I’ll open an issue on the GitHub project for WMS integration, so I will try to get this working.

      greetings
      Peter

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    • Hi,

      you might want to check out version 1.10.0. It has WMS server support.

      greetings
      Peter

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34. is there a way to get a 3d view? like http://openlayers.org/ol3-cesium
    need to fly over a gpx. can do it in 2d. but 3d would be nice.

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    • Hi Michael,

      this sure looks interesting. I will give it a try, but can’t make a promise as to when. Hopefully this or next week. Anyway I’ll create an issue for this in GitHub.

      Peter

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    • I just tried it, alas we’re out of luck. Cesium uses WebGL, and the JavaFX WebView version of webkit does not support WebGL, althoug Webkit itself does. So nothing I can do here, sorry; I defnitely would have liked to do so.

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40. Do you have the ability to utilize other map data besides OSM and MQ?

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    • Hi Jared,

      basically it should be possible to use all the map data that can be used with OpenLayers as I do nothing more than display a small web page and integrate the open layers api.

      The mapjfx API will need a little modification for sources that need data like an API key or a different map source url.

      I didn’t try out other map data up to now, I did not have the need.

      Peter

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