On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:56:19 -0700 Michael Barnes <barnmich...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's an interesting challenge. First, I am not a programmer, but I > can sometimes piece stuff together and modify to make it work. > > I have seen these on other web pages and they seem like they should be > simple enough. I have a document file with about 200 locations > nationwide. Each location has s site number and an address and > description of the location. What I would like to do is have a web > page with a map I can zoom in on with a dot for each location. > Clicking on the dot brings up a small box with the site number, name, > and a link to the description. Clicking on the link brings up a new > window with the paragraph describing the site details. > > Maybe there is some kind of service I can incorporate for this? It > will be very low volume and out of my pocket, so Open Source or > otherwise free is nice. > > Thanks for your ideas. > Michael > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug Yes. What you need to do is convert your CSV spreadsheet in a native Geographic Information System format such as GPX. GPX is for storing tracks and waypoints as well as various metadata about them. You can use GPSBabel for the conversion. https://www.gpsbabel.org/ and ounce you have prepared your dataset you can load it into Viking https://sourceforge.net/projects/viking/ to verify all the information looks good. Ounce all looks good there are various OpenStreetMap plugins for various Content Management Systems that will take the data as in input and put an interactive map on your page. Alternatively you could enter your data into the public OpenStreetMap database thus improving it for the whole world with JOSM https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ and your changes will be replicated across all the other mapping services. See the OSM wiki for details https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page Note that it may be easier and more portable just to insert your data into the OSM database that way your buildings or whatever else can just be referenced by their object ID and you don't have to worry about the metadata as well. Lots of software call automatically pull it from OSM -- ________________________________________ / Beauty and harmony are as necessary to \ \ you as the very breath of life. / ---------------------------------------- \ \ /\ /\ //\\_//\\ ____ \_ _/ / / / * * \ /^^^] \_\O/_/ [ ] / \_ [ / \ \_ / / [ [ / \/ _/ _[ [ \ /_/ _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
