James Gosling recently found a few moments for real programming, as he discusses in his latest post Map browser on kenai:
I ripped the little demo map browser component out of my Oracle OpenWorld slides and moved it to kenai as a new project called
OSMBrowser. Not very polished, more of a starting point for someone motivated to play :-) Thanks to the crew at the Open Street Map project for a n
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