On Sa, 21.07.07 21:48 Christian Hunke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > today there was an idea of a hackfest in the #etk channel on > freenode.net. For managing this the idea came up to have an overview > where the devs are located on the earth. So I searched a bit and > found "xplanet" that seems perfect for this job. It will get a list > of devs with abolute world GPS coords and names and create a nice > looking world map with the devs on it. > > Here is an example: > Small version: > http://thunder-development.de/test/etk_developers-small.png High-Res > version: http://thunder-development.de/test/etk_developers.png > (attention 11mb) > > Morlenxus had the idea to have the devs coords inside the info.txt in > CVS. So a script on the server could fetch all coords out of this > files and run xplanet to generate the image. At least for the > high-res version it could maybe be a hard task for a webserver, here > it takes 30 sec of 100% load on a Celeron M 1.6 to generate it. So > maybe it would be better to just have the coords in the info.txt > file, but the collection of them and generation of the image will be > done from time to time manually. > > Would like to hear your opinions :) > > > Regards Christian 'Thunder2002' Hunke >
Cool stuff! Having these coordinates one could also create a shapefile and import it to google earth, as for example an e-devs layer.. like: click on raster, and GE starts spinning globe a zooming to raster's location, hehe
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