On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Douglas Burke <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 7/2/10 3:19 PM, P Kishor wrote:
>> I have started a map of PDL Users Worldwide [1], which can be reached
>> from [2]. I don't know how to edit the PDL wiki to embed the map
>> directly in it, hence, the map on my personal web site.
>>
>> The data for the map is in a Google Fusion Table, which,
>> unfortunately, I can't figure out how to allow anyone to edit. So, I
>> have created a Google Spreadsheet at [3] which can be edited by
>> anyone. Once folks have added more entries to [3], I will reimport the
>> data into [2], thereby updating [1]. Or, in the meantime, I will
>> figure out how to --
>>
>> (a) Allow anyone to update the mappable table directly, and
>> (b) Embed the map in the PDL wiki so the map is no longer on my
>> personal web site.
>>
>> So, please go to [3] and add your place, discipline, latitude, and
>> longitude (use decimal degrees, not NSEW junk. West and South are
>> negative.).
>>
>> [1] http://punkish.org/PDL-Users-Worldwide
>> [2] 
>> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pdl/index.php?title=A_Map_of_PDL_Users_Worldwide
>> [3] 
>> http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am3SSF48QCE9dERjcko2YWNrSzJVLUZLd1QyaldsYXc&hl=en
>>
>
> If you wanted to get really fancy, you could use Exhibit [1] to view the
> spread sheet (I believe there is an almost tunr-key for it to use data
> from a google spreadsheet), which would allow you to add other fields to
> track at the expense of more hassle...

Thanks, but I don't want to get too fancy, esp. at the expense of more
hassle. Step by step. Once we have a sufficient number of points, and
I have figured out how to move the map to PDL wiki (where it really
belongs), then we can think of other mods.

By the way, does anyone know how I can add an iframe to that darn PDL wiki?

>
> [1] http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/
>
> Doug
>
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