Re: [backstage] Google Mashups

2006-03-12 Thread Murray 
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 11:12:08AM +, Darren Clark wrote:
 Take a look at:
 http://tubejp.co.uk/

And they have now added some walking routes into the equation.  Amazing
what you can get done with nothing more than an email ;)

So the directions from Cannon Street to White City are now clever
enough to tell you to walk to Bank, and not get on the district and
circle line and change at notting hill.  The former is faster.

For the Tube Spotters amongst us, another little tube-map fan site:

http://www.geofftech.co.uk/iblog/?p=235

is getting the sharp end of London Undergrounds Lawyers.  Could I
suggest it might be a perfect time to pop over to
writetothem.com and drop a note to your London Assembly member.

And while I'm here, has this already been past the list?

 Give us back our crown jewels
 http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1726229,00.html

 Our taxes fund the collection of public data - yet we pay
 again to access it. Make the data freely available to
 stimulate innovation, argue Charles Arthur and Michael Cross
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Re: [backstage] Google Mashups

2006-03-08 Thread Gordon Joly 

At 13:50 + 7/3/06, Dave Cross wrote:

Jonathan Stott wrote:

Dom Ramsey wrote:

I have the locations of Tube stations on my old mashup - http:// 
www.dynamite.co.uk/local/ - I keep meaning to add the actual 
routes  in, but I've not had the time.


I did this a while ago (I have a lot of metro map datasets for 
research I am doing for my PhD). Here's the London one:


http://www.jstott.me.uk/googlemaps/tubemap/


Very cool, but if I can be pedantic for one second, it looks to me 
as tho' you have the central line station at Shepherd's Bush in the 
wrong place. It's really on the north side of the green very close 
to the big roundabout. That way trains don't have make the hairpin 
bend that you're currently showing :)





The hairpin exists. Ask any BBC staff who swing around it every day, 
and also those who can hear the trains in The Village Hall in Wood 
Lane!


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Re: [backstage] Google Mashups

2006-03-07 Thread Dom Ramsey 

On 7 Mar 2006, at 12:30, Gordon Joly wrote:


http://tubejp.co.uk/



Simplicity itself. And stuffed full of information. Brilliant!

I like the reality of the tube lines. We are so used to Mr. Beck's  
view...


It's very cool and pretty, although it almost certainly breaks the  
terms of use - the map tiles appear to be edited versions of the  
original Google Maps / Tele Atlas tiles, and no credit is given.


I have the locations of Tube stations on my old mashup - http:// 
www.dynamite.co.uk/local/ - I keep meaning to add the actual routes  
in, but I've not had the time.


Dom
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Re: [backstage] Google Mashups

2006-03-07 Thread Jonathan Stott 

Dom Ramsey wrote:

I have the locations of Tube stations on my old mashup - http:// 
www.dynamite.co.uk/local/ - I keep meaning to add the actual routes  
in, but I've not had the time.



I did this a while ago (I have a lot of metro map datasets for research 
I am doing for my PhD). Here's the London one:


http://www.jstott.me.uk/googlemaps/tubemap/

And Madrid:

http://www.jstott.me.uk/googlemaps/tubemap/madrid.php

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Re: [backstage] Google Mashups

2006-03-07 Thread Dave Cross 

Jonathan Stott wrote:

Dom Ramsey wrote:

I have the locations of Tube stations on my old mashup - http:// 
www.dynamite.co.uk/local/ - I keep meaning to add the actual routes  
in, but I've not had the time.


I did this a while ago (I have a lot of metro map datasets for research 
I am doing for my PhD). Here's the London one:


http://www.jstott.me.uk/googlemaps/tubemap/


Very cool, but if I can be pedantic for one second, it looks to me as 
tho' you have the central line station at Shepherd's Bush in the wrong 
place. It's really on the north side of the green very close to the big 
roundabout. That way trains don't have make the hairpin bend that you're 
currently showing :)


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RE: [backstage] Google Mashups

2006-03-07 Thread Andrew Bowden 
  I did this a while ago (I have a lot of metro map datasets for 
  research I am doing for my PhD). Here's the London one:
  http://www.jstott.me.uk/googlemaps/tubemap/
 Very cool, but if I can be pedantic for one second, it looks 
 to me as tho' you have the central line station at Shepherd's 
 Bush in the wrong place. It's really on the north side of the 
 green very close to the big roundabout. That way trains don't 
 have make the hairpin bend that you're currently showing :)

I think the station's actually roundabout the right place - maybe it's
actually a smidge to the left, but not much and the line does go round
some very sharp corners between Shepherds Bush and White City on the
Central Line (until they changed things recently, you used to get a huge
amount of loud schreeching as the tube went round the corners!)

However all is not totally accurate in the Bush!  The HC line station
needs to be a bit further up - the platforms are visible on the images
Google.




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Re: [backstage] Google Mashups

2006-03-07 Thread Dave Cross 

Andrew Bowden wrote:
I did this a while ago (I have a lot of metro map datasets for 
research I am doing for my PhD). Here's the London one:

http://www.jstott.me.uk/googlemaps/tubemap/
Very cool, but if I can be pedantic for one second, it looks 
to me as tho' you have the central line station at Shepherd's 
Bush in the wrong place. It's really on the north side of the 
green very close to the big roundabout. That way trains don't 
have make the hairpin bend that you're currently showing :)


I think the station's actually roundabout the right place


Well, it is now that Jonathan has moved it :)

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RE: [backstage] Google Mashups

2006-03-07 Thread Andrew Bowden 
 Well, it is now that Jonathan has moved it :)

You know, that might explain it :)

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Re: [backstage] Google Mashups

2006-03-05 Thread Darren Clark 
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 11:25:51PM -, Ben O'Neill wrote:
 Dharmesh,
 
 If you're still looking, here's another made by a friend of mine:
 http://www.pete-b.co.uk/maps/ 
 
 If you stick to England and football grounds you won't have a problem ;)
 
 I did have a mashup with all the London underground stations + tube lines
 marked that did shortest path finding across the network but the database
 got nuked.

Take a look at:

http://tubejp.co.uk/

 
 -- Ben
 
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 I found one. Tagzania.
 
 I was thinking about a local reporting idea where users submit reports and
 can use google maps to select where the report is located which would then
 bring up a form with the location coordinates prepopulated. 
 
 Cheers
 
 Dharmesh
 
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 Dharmesh,
 
 Not sure I understand what you mean by 'web request'?
 
 Can you describe an example?
 
 Al.
 
 www.gTraffic.info
 
 --- Dharmesh Raithatha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 
  Hey folks
  
  Has anyone got an example of a good googlemasup where you can click on
 
  the map to make a web request with the location clicked on?
  
  Dharmesh
  
   
  
  
  
  
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  Subject: [backstage] Mood News - Good News
  
  Hey Folks,
  
  Quiet around here isn't it ? :-)
  
  I am planning a re-org of the Mood News site and as a little starter 
  put together a page of 'good' news.
  
  http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/good.html
  
  There's no link from the main page (yet).
  
  Also the Google module is now in the directory:
  http://www.google.com/ig/directory?q=mood+news
  
  Take care,
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Re: [backstage] Google Mashups

2006-03-03 Thread Mario Menti 
On 3/3/06, Dharmesh Raithatha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey folksHas anyone got an example of a good googlemasup where you can click onthe map to make a web request with the location clicked on?DharmeshThomas Scott's backstage TVMAP prototype? 
http://tvmap.thomasscott.net

Re: [backstage] Google Mashups

2006-03-03 Thread Matthew Somerville 

Dharmesh Raithatha wrote:

Has anyone got an example of a good googlemasup where you can click on
the map to make a web request with the location clicked on?


Sorry if I've misunderstood the question, and usual caveat of code in 
emails, but something like this should work:


--8--
GEvent.addListener(map, 'click', function(overlay, point) {
  if (point) {
var query = 'x=' + point.x + 'y=' + point.y
var request = GXmlHttp.create();
request.open('GET', 'file.xml?' + query, true);
request.onreadystatechange = function() {
  if (request.readyState == 4) {
var xml = request.responseXML;
// Do whatever you want with the response
  }
}
request.send(null);
  }
});
--8--

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Re: [backstage] Google Mashups

2006-03-03 Thread Alistair Rutherford 
Dharmesh,

Not sure I understand what you mean by 'web request'?

Can you describe an example?

Al.

www.gTraffic.info

--- Dharmesh Raithatha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Hey folks
 
 Has anyone got an example of a good googlemasup
 where you can click on
 the map to make a web request with the location
 clicked on?
 
 Dharmesh
 
  
 
 
 
 
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 Sent: 02 March 2006 21:07
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 Subject: [backstage] Mood News - Good News
 
 Hey Folks,
 
 Quiet around here isn't it ? :-)
 
 I am planning a re-org of the Mood News site and as
 a little starter put
 together a page of 'good' news.
 
 http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/good.html
 
 There's no link from the main page (yet).
 
 Also the Google module is now in the directory:
 http://www.google.com/ig/directory?q=mood+news
 
 Take care,
 Davy Mitchell
 
 Mood News
  - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as   Good,  
 Bad or   Neutral.
  http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/
 
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RE: [backstage] Google Mashups

2006-03-03 Thread Dharmesh Raithatha 
I found one. Tagzania.

I was thinking about a local reporting idea where users submit reports
and can use google maps to select where the report is located which
would then bring up a form with the location coordinates prepopulated. 

Cheers

Dharmesh

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Dharmesh,

Not sure I understand what you mean by 'web request'?

Can you describe an example?

Al.

www.gTraffic.info

--- Dharmesh Raithatha [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:

 Hey folks
 
 Has anyone got an example of a good googlemasup where you can click on

 the map to make a web request with the location clicked on?
 
 Dharmesh
 
  
 
 
 
 
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 Sent: 02 March 2006 21:07
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 Subject: [backstage] Mood News - Good News
 
 Hey Folks,
 
 Quiet around here isn't it ? :-)
 
 I am planning a re-org of the Mood News site and as a little starter 
 put together a page of 'good' news.
 
 http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/good.html
 
 There's no link from the main page (yet).
 
 Also the Google module is now in the directory:
 http://www.google.com/ig/directory?q=mood+news
 
 Take care,
 Davy Mitchell
 
 Mood News
  - BBC News Headlines Auto-Classified as   Good,  
 Bad or   Neutral.
  http://www.latedecember.com/sites/moodnews/
 
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