Tag: howto
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Advanced Line Styling to visualize the direction of Routes and Tours
We were asked how to indicate the direction for a route or a tour using the shape layer. We’ve built a sample for it which demonstrates two options:
1. Use a stroked MapPolyline and animate the StrokeDashOffset property. This technique is also used at the RoutingDemo of the demo center application.…
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How to implement custom MapShapes
A sample which shows how to implement a custom shape type using the example of arrows between locations. We’ve adopted Charles Petzold’s WPF arrow sample to work with geographic coordinates.
Download application, x-zip-compressed:
- MapArrowDemo (zip file, 202 kilobyte)
- MapArrowDemoSrc (zip file, 208 kilobyte)
For any questions please contact the PTV xServer Support Team.…
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Use your own xMap Rendering Styles with PTV xServer .NET
- Create your own rendering configuration (e.g. myRender.ini). You find the description of the format in the PTV xMap Server documenation
- Copy the xmap-ajax-bg.properties and rename it (e.g. xmap-ajax-bg-myprofile.properties)
- Change the entry for the rendering profile in this file, (e.g.
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Howto create your own webservice clients for PTV xServers
Some time ago the PTV xServer development team was asked whether it was possible to create a web service client without our provided java clients and the bundled cxf framework.
The simple answer is: Yes! Those who would like to take the adventure and try it themselves should read on…What you need for this
The prerequisites for this little sample are the following:
- A JDK 6, or newer,
- A Maven2 or Maven3 installation,
- PTV xRoute Server (the sample runs with xRoute 1.16 but it should work with older versions too)
Create a Maven project
First of all we create a new directory and set up a Maven project file named
pom.xml
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