Ashley, Thanks for the reply. I think image magick might work for me. But would I have to create the animated gif everyday myself? or is there some way I can have imagemagick do this at a set interval and feed it up to the server?
On May 5, 11:51 am, "Ashley M. Kirchner" <[email protected]> wrote: > Can't you grab those time stamped gif files (for whatever length of time you > want the radar to animate), create your own animated gif offline, and > overlay that on the map? Seems to me that's an easier solution than trying > to figure out how to do it in you map script (through JS) - not saying it's > impossible, just looking for a better solution. > > For example, you could use something like Image Magick to automate the > merging of the gif files and feed it back to you map. This way you can > generate those gifs on some interval as opposed to dynamically when someone > loads up the page, thus providing a faster load. > > Image Magick's website had a ton of examples on image manipulation. > > -- Sent via Android, from somewhere fun. > > On May 5, 2010 9:28 AM, "Steve Sanders" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > I have been working on a map for a client located > here:www.weareduckhunters.com/map.php > > I have been working on the weather portion of this map. Currently, it > shows a radar image that I got from > here:http://radar.weather.gov/Conus/RadarImg/ > (I am using latest_radaronly.gif) as a GGroundOverlay. What I would > like to do is have the radar animate and show the progression. I know > this can be done, The image directory has timestamped gif files, so > I'm pretty sure this can be done. After searching around on here for a > while I've seen a lot of discussion about it, but none that have the > full national mosaic radar image animating. If anyone knows of a > working example, I'd really appreciate it. Or if you could point me in > the right direction for writing a loop that would be fantastic. > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Maps API" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<google-maps-api%2Bunsubscribe@ > googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Maps API" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
