GPX Route Editor Prototype

Features of GWT Prototype

• Reads from bikely.com's RSS feed for recent Atlanta, Georgia routes to populate list box of route choices to download.
• Downloads selected item from list box (invokes bikely.com's export URL for a GPX file) and presents this as a blue polyline on Google Map (centered near Atlanta).
• Summarizes downloaded and visible routes in a table that allows unloading the route.
• Clicking on a route selects the route for sub-selecting points. A selected route:
  • Color changed to magenta
  • crosshair cursor follows mouse movements, but is snapped to the route.
  • Clicking cursor performs sub-selection
    • First click selects starting point
    • Second click selects ending point
    • Third click turns the points between the two (inclusive) into a new route added in green
• Two routes from the table of loaded routes can be joined into a new route
  • Select two routes whose first endpoint is near the start of the second route
  • Click "Join Routes" button to create new route from the two sub-routes
• Save route as a GPX file on server
• Read (fixed) directory of routes to pull up a list of named routes that can be loaded (.gpx only for routes)
• Read (fixed) directory of KML/KMZ overlays that can be loaded
• URL query param to name route that can be loaded and saved from Bikely.com (includes JavaScript bookmark to capture name and load it locally)

Desired Features

• Dialog to enter name of route that could be loaded from Bikely.com
• Structure to the various sources of GPX routes
  • local
  • bikely location RSS (the current offering)
  • bikely personal RSS (by user ID)
  • temp storage possibly or a "snippet" location?
• Improved Marker control
  • "Tune" the marker selection by allowing a scroll bar to increment/decrement the index of the marker's vertex.
  • Display more detail about the marker selection
  • Allow the route color to update as the markers are moved.
  • Improve the state management of marker selection (do we need three clicks of the cursor? provide button instead?)

Cleanup

• Java Documentation
• Better color management
• Route Mouseover for cursor change so you can tell when you're in the right spot to select a route
• Selecting a route from the table
• Improved Table format
• Tryout Benchmark class to improve performance running in hosted mode (web mode runs acceptably quick).