Martin Heller
Contributing Writer

InfiView Demos

analysis
Jun 20, 20071 min

I'm deep into the process of reviewing InfiView, a framework for building interactive and dynamic Web 2.0 maps and diagrams that is implemented on top of Bindows. I'll hold my comments for the review, but I thought you might be interested in the online demos: InfiView™ : Demos / Experience. The Flight Browser demo (click on the picture at the left)  is especially interesting, as it combines a live

I’m deep into the process of reviewing InfiView, a framework for building interactive and dynamic Web 2.0 maps and diagrams that is implemented on top of Bindows. I’ll hold my comments for the review, but I thought you might be interested in the online demos: InfiView™ : Demos / Experience.

CLICK to run the Flight Browser demo

The Flight Browser demo (click on the picture at the left)  is especially interesting, as it combines a live Google Map with an interactive InfiView annotation layer. Understanding this particular sample from the source code and documentation took some effort, as well as some queries to support, but I think I’ve got it now.

By the way, don’t expect real airline routes from this demo. “The airline routes are drawn using SVG in Firefox and VML in Internet Explorer. Airports are taken from a collection of airport positions. The airline routes are created by randomly connecting pairs of airports.”

Martin Heller

Martin Heller is a contributing writer at InfoWorld. Formerly a web and Windows programming consultant, he developed databases, software, and websites from his office in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1986 to 2010. From 2010 to August of 2012, Martin was vice president of technology and education at Alpha Software. From March 2013 to January 2014, he was chairman of Tubifi, maker of a cloud-based video editor, having previously served as CEO.

Martin is the author or co-author of nearly a dozen PC software packages and half a dozen Web applications. He is also the author of several books on Windows programming. As a consultant, Martin has worked with companies of all sizes to design, develop, improve, and/or debug Windows, web, and database applications, and has performed strategic business consulting for high-tech corporations ranging from tiny to Fortune 100 and from local to multinational.

Martin’s specialties include programming languages C++, Python, C#, JavaScript, and SQL, and databases PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, Google Cloud Spanner, CockroachDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Couchbase. He writes about software development, data management, analytics, AI, and machine learning, contributing technology analyses, explainers, how-to articles, and hands-on reviews of software development tools, data platforms, AI models, machine learning libraries, and much more.

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