I have an idea for a new mapping feature, but don't have the expertise
to implement it. So, just in case there's someone out there looking for
a project... ;)
Before I got Atlas and Map working, I used FG's property browser to
display my current latitude and longitude. I then typed those into a
small web page I built that called Google maps and displayed a map
centered on my current position. Other than the slow update due to
having to manually type lat/lon info into google, it worked like a
charm. The great thing is you can use all the functions of Google maps
(zoom in/out, turn on maps or satellite images, etc). Your leveraging
the power of Google maps to do all kinds of things that would be
difficult to implement in a standalone mapping application... and your
pulling in the info as you need it - no local creation and storage of
maps necessary.
I was thinking that a realtime interface to Google maps would be great;
you'd "just" have to feed the lat/lon info from FG to GMap periodically.
In researching how one might do this I found an app that listens on a
socket for a decimal lat/lon, and displays a google map centered on that
location! This is at least half the battle! If someone knew how to
periodically extract the lat/lon data from FG and write it to the socket
this app was listening on, you'd be done! (The app I'm refering to is:
http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/gmaplive)
Sorry for the long post (and the lack of being able to do this myself!),
but I thought it sounded like a way to get a lot of functionality for
relatively little effort.
Thanks to everyone for the great software,
--
Rick Hayter
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