Re: [PLUG] Points on a map
On Sun, 12 Jul 2020 19:56:19 -0700 Michael Barnes 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
Re: [PLUG] Points on a map
> "Michael" == Michael Barnes writes: Michael> Here's an interesting challenge. First, I am not a programmer, Michael> but I can sometimes piece stuff together and modify to make it Michael> work. Michael> I have seen these on other web pages and they seem like they Michael> should be simple enough. I have a document file with about 200 Michael> locations nationwide. Each location has s site number and an Michael> address and description of the location. What I would like to Michael> do is have a web page with a map I can zoom in on with a dot Michael> for each location. Clicking on the dot brings up a small box Michael> with the site number, name, and a link to the Michael> description. Clicking on the link brings up a new window with Michael> the paragraph describing the site details. Michael> Maybe there is some kind of service I can incorporate for this? Michael> It will be very low volume and out of my pocket, so Open Source Michael> or otherwise free is nice. Another option would be something like D3: https://d3js.org/ Check out the examples. -- Russell Senior, President russ...@personaltelco.net ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Points on a map
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 7:57 PM Michael Barnes 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. > > I did something similar to this a few years back, using google's map api. At the time it was a free service. Now I believe they charge for it, but give you a credit of so many visits per month. Which makes it effectively free for low volume sites. ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Points on a map
On 7/12/20 7:56 PM, Michael Barnes 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 Google maps API does what you seek. https://www.google.com/earth/outreach/learn/mapping-from-a-google-spreadsheet/ https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/embed/start There are other GIS tools, but google is probably sufficient. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
[PLUG] Points on a map
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
