[OSM-dev] Java component for displaying OSM Maps

[Jan Peter Stotz]

Steve Ratcliffe wrote:
> There is JXMapViewer.  For example see
> http://weblogs.java.net/blog/joshy/archive/2007/02/tricked_out_map.html
> and scroll down the page to see the OSM part.
> 
> I've not used it so I can't say how good it is or how useful it might be
> for your purposes.

Pretty impressing. A general purpose achitecture that can load OSM maps 
as well as several other, it has a mini map supports map markers (and 
you can "fly" similar to google-earth from one to another). License is 
LGPL. But there is not only light in this project:

The linked source/binary (dated Feb 2007) has some small bugs e.g. in 
the minimap
It requires two libraries: swingx and swingx-ws together about 1.8 MB
The main problem is that I didn't find a release of both libraries that 
allows to use the map component other than the old linked one (with the 
bugs). Looks like the API isn't very stable up to now.

Jan