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Posted by Gregsd on August 15, 2006, 3:56 pm
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anantesh,
Have you looked at doing something in Flash or SVG? It might be easier
to do it this way rather than using a GIS. Both Flash and SVG will
allow you to zoom/pan around and click on items to get extra
information. There are some examples on the Adobe site with building
plans using SVG.
HTH
Greg.
anantesh@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to build an application which will provide a navigable and
> clickable floormap of a building. I am trying to provide all or at
> least few of the following functionalities:
>
> 1.User should be able to open and visualize a web-based map of floor
> plan of the office using a web-browser like IE.
> 2.User should be able to pan and zoom across the complete map and
> visualize the different entities like meeting rooms, cubicles,
> printers, workstations etc.
> 3.User should be able to obtain information about different entities
> (like room/machine etc) by clicking or in any other way for any
> particular entity. The information available can include Room no,
> Machine name etc etc..
> 4.User should be able to search to locate a Person or a Room or Machine
> etc. (points or polygon). Entities with a name can be searched by using
> string search. Other facilities like Cafeteria/Restrooms etc should be
> searched by vicinity search.
>
> I am very new to GIS and don't have much knowledge. But i have slight
> idea about Mapserver but not much.
>
> Any ideas/suggestions/inputs for where to start from will be highly
> appreciated.
>
> For a beginning, i was thinking of categorzing all the units as
> polygons,lines and points and using some spatial data structures to
> arrange them. Since, it is within a building, i think the actual
> lat/long etc dont matter much. But i dont know how to proceed.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --Anantesh
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