Andreas Volz wrote: > Am Sat, 21 Jul 2007 21:48:50 +0200 schrieb Christian Hunke: > >> Hi guys, >> >> today there was an idea of a hackfest in the #etk channel on >> freenode.net.
B&B :) 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. Even an early e17 version of this :) Triple W00T Ubber-Moo Werd Score !! http://www.squaregoldfish.co.uk/software/e17xplanet/ 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. >> Have done something like this in the past w/ Google map Api. Don't have the page anymore tho, but pretty simple code... >> 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. Simple, effect, clean, efficient...what's not to like :) So a script on the server could fetch all coords out of this >> files and run xplanet to generate the image. Hmmm, seems a nightly build script maybe coming soon to. 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. Proally not much disk space if done html via google map... 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. Sounds like a great plan !! This should be jumped on... >> >> Would like to hear your opinions :) > > Cool! Please tell me how you format the GPS coords in your info.txt. > Perhaps we could display it later on the OSM[1] map. > IIRC, the map api works best in lat-long. > http://openstreetmap.org/ > > regards > Andreas dh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
