Paul Paul Hastings wrote: > > > ref. the maps thread earlier today, I looked at your thing, much > > cleverer than ours, but ours does the trick and works entirely in CF > > well there must be something on the backend processing those images
Only a (large) shed load of slices and CFX_IMAGE to do the arrow. > are you've got something like ms's terraserver going (pre-processed > imagery). It was that which gave me the original idea. > mapserver's a more flexible approach & you certainly can't > be the price ;-) I will take a better look > > > see http://www.adventuredirectory.com for a world map or > > http://www.pti.org.uk for a UK one > > pretty cool but its geographic definition of "near" is kinda > funny, katmandu & bangkok or bangkok & new delhi > aren't what i'd call "near" ;-) maybe you need to fine > tune your search radius a bit?? In adventuredirectory it is thought to be better to have a listing based on "global nearness" rather than some arbitrary limit. Thus if you click on Bangkok and want to go snow skiing then you will still get a valid listing though none are likely to be very near. Overall though, the notion of 'nearness' is also relative to the quantity of entries in the DB; there are some 40,000 entries collected and positioned now, but still some parts of the world are covered better than others. eg UK / Western Europe and North America are pretty good for most of the 70 or so activities. > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.312 / Virus Database: 173 - Release Date: 12/31/2001 > ______________________________________________________________________ Get Your Own Dedicated Windows 2000 Server PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionb FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
