Kevin Ball transformed his now-defunct hosted ward mapping service into a
little .vbs file that you can download and run on your PC against a .csv
file exported from your ward web site.
It generates an html file in the root of your C: drive that holds the
mapping app & data. Although the address data passes through a foreign web
service, your membership info isn't being held on an outside server -- it
remains on your local hard drive. Thus we now have the "personal" edition.
Basic requirements are Windows Scripting Host to create the file, and Flash
Player & a connection to Yahoo to use it. If you're reading this and are
running Windows 2000 or newer, you're probably good to go.
The script can be downloaded directly from
<http://wardmap.theballfamily.org/WardMap.vbs>
More info about the app:
<http://wardmap.theballfamily.org/>
If you don't like the WSH requirement, it looks like it would be pretty
easy to rewrite it in the scripting language of your choice. If you don't
like the Flash requirement, rewrite it to use another mapping API. :-)
Special note to people with poor reading comprehension: Please note that
the CSV file should be generated by lds.org/units -- not by MLS. Took me a
while to figure out what I was doing wrong....
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