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On Feb 16, 2015, at 7:21 PM, R E Sieber wrote:

> Could do it in all in KML with the tour function.
> 
> Or you could use the Mapbox API.
> 
> Renee
> 
> On 2015-02-16, 9:58 PM, Chris Spurgeon wrote:
>> What's up wankers?
>> 
>> I need to knock out a thingy that shows a map or Google Earth type of 
>> display where we automatically zoom around from place to place and briefly 
>> show some info at each place. You know the type of thing I mean... we zoom 
>> in on Paris, pause while a pop-up appears with some Paris-related info, fade 
>> the pop-up out, then zoom out and over to Brisbane, then zoom in there and 
>> display a pop-up with some Australia info, etc.
>> 
>> I bet people on this list have made this type of things dozens of times. But 
>> I'm hoping some of you can give me some suggestions as to which 
>> technologies/libraries I should use, and maybe point me to some relevant 
>> tutorials or examples.
>> 
>> I'm a fine JavaScript and processing Programmer so am comfortable in either 
>> of those two languages. (I can get by in python and perl if the method of 
>> choice requires one of those languages).
>> 
>> This thing can be browser based, Google Earth based, or a stand alone app, 
>> whichever is the least hassle.
>> 
>> How do you think I should proceed?
>> 
>> Thanks everyone!
>> 
>> Chris Spurgeon
>> 
>> PS> At first investigation I thought the Google Earth API might be the way 
>> to go, but I read that they're killing it off. Does that change things?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Chris Spurgeon
>> [email protected]
>> twitter.com/chrisspurgeon
>> 
>> 
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