Re: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-07 Thread Paul Hastings
The New Year's Eve site I do (www.firstnight.org http://www.firstnight.org/ ) needs a fairly complex map of Boston with locations and special markers which of course change every year.I've been doing the site going on nine years and the map is always one of the most challenging aspects.

Re: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-07 Thread Claude Schneegans
The New Year's Eve site I do (www.firstnight.org http://www.firstnight.org/ ) needs a fairly complex map of Boston with locations and special markers which of course change every year. Hi, Is the map you are refering to online now ? I cannot find any on the site, could you be more specific about

RE: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-07 Thread Jim Davis
herself). The full map is also available in the PDF of the Program Guide (bottom of the page). Jim Davis From: Claude Schneegans [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 7:54 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Displaying a dynamic map - how? The New Year's Eve site I do

RE: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-07 Thread Jim Davis
on the map.) Jim Davis From: Paul Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 5:28 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Displaying a dynamic map - how? The New Year's Eve site I do (www.firstnight.org http://www.firstnight.org/ ) needs a fairly complex map of Boston

Re: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-07 Thread Claude Schneegans
That being said the map (or at least the venues) are indeed databased already. I have build a tool to define these mappings 100% the DHTML way on any image, presently mostly photos. For the time being only circles are used, but it could be squares, rectangles etc as well. Have a glance at

Re: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-07 Thread Claude Schneegans
I get no images on any Mac browser Hi, Can you try again, I solved a little problem, and now it works on NT4.7 and NT7. I suppose (hope) it works also on Macs. I guess it should even work with Netscape 1.0, and may be even with Mosaic ! ;-)

Re: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-06 Thread Paul Hastings
What's the best way to be changing the colours of the blocks, given that they're not rectangular and all different sizes? i'd suggest a simple GIS. it also allows users to interactively query a parcel, spatially search for parcels, etc. it can be as complicated or as simple as you need. How

Re: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-06 Thread Claude Schneegans
Hi, I have a custom tag (CFX_MapData) on the back burner that would do exactly this. It sets colors according to values from a databse on a gif file reprensing any map with a maximum of 250 areas. This tag is sort of a cousin of CFX_Mapclick tha you can see at the address below. If you are

RE: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-06 Thread Dave Watts
You can use Remoting in CF 5.0 - but you'd have to buy it. I'm not even sure you can use it at all. If you don't have CFMX or JRun, you can buy either Flash Remoting for Java or for .NET, but you wouldn't be able to write CFCs to interact with it. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software

RE: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-06 Thread Jim Davis
are you can be dealing with very small grid cells. and Flash would probably be much, much easy in the long run. Jim Davis _ From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 1:40 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Displaying a dynamic map - how? You can use Remoting

RE: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-06 Thread Jim Davis
decent input. Jim Davis From: Paul Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 2:40 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Displaying a dynamic map - how? What's the best way to be changing the colours of the blocks, given that they're not rectangular and all different sizes? i'd

RE: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-06 Thread Jim Davis
I assumed that you could use Remoting for ASP and interact with it using the COM interface. I could definitely be wrong tho'. Jim Davis From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 2:03 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Displaying a dynamic map - how? You can use

RE: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-06 Thread Dave Watts
I assumed that you could use Remoting for ASP and interact with it using the COM interface. I don't think there is a Flash Remoting for ASP, just for .NET and Java. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ phone: 202-797-5496 fax: 202-797-5444 [Todays Threads] [This

RE: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-06 Thread Jim Davis
Sorry - my bad. Jim Davis From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 4:26 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Displaying a dynamic map - how? I assumed that you could use Remoting for ASP and interact with it using the COM interface. I don't think there is a Flash

Re: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-06 Thread Claude Schneegans
Ok, you can see a preview of the tag here: http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/mapdata/mapdataDoc.cfm It should be available at tagStore in a couple of days, when the docs is completed. In your case, you would just need a table for all your blocs, each bloc should use a specific color in

Re: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Kear
, Australia AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com .com,.net,.org domains from AUD$20/Year - Original Message - From: Claude Schneegans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 21:11:27 -0400 Subject: Re: Displaying a dynamic map - how? To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, you can see a preview

Re: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-06 Thread Dick Applebaum
Claude I get no images on any Mac browser Dick On Sep 6, 2004, at 6:11 PM, Claude Schneegans wrote: Ok, you can see a preview of the tag here: http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/mapdata/mapdataDoc.cfm It should be available at tagStore in a couple of days, when the docs is

Re: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-06 Thread Dick Applebaum
Correction -- if I click on the Map icon I get the map (e.g. Maqp of France)-- just no detail images Dick Claude I get no images on any Mac browser Dick On Sep 6, 2004, at 6:11 PM, Claude Schneegans wrote: Ok, you can see a preview of the tag here:

Re: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-06 Thread Dick Applebaum
Hey Claude Since you are building this tag as we speak -- I always thought the nest looking maps were the ones that had the edges (5-6 pixels) a slightly darker shade of the same color -- gives a 3-D effect! Dick Correction -- if I click on the Map icon I get the map (e.g. Maqp of France)--

Re: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-06 Thread Paul Hastings
Depending on the quality of the original map (digital would be much better than a scan) you should be able to use the trace applications that come with most vector drawing tools to get the map into Flash. well as you can see from the map in question most spatial data start life on paper. these

Re: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-06 Thread Claude Schneegans
Claude, this looks great.I think it'll do the job well.Our static map is at http://www.tallwoods.com.au/r_stages/r_stage6plan.html and as you can see it's got less than 100 lots to sell, so therere would be room for allocating that many colours to the tag. Yes, I look at your image, and there

Re: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-06 Thread Claude Schneegans
I get no images on any Mac browser I don't get them under any version of Netscape either, it must be a problem with MIME types or so. The image is sent using a CFCONTENT TYPE=image/gif tag, but it probabily needs some more stuff added in the header, I'll check this tomorrow. --

RE: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-06 Thread Jim Davis
:40 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Displaying a dynamic map - how? Depending on the quality of the original map (digital would be much better than a scan) you should be able to use the trace applications that come with most vector drawing tools to get the map into Flash. well as you can see from

Re: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-06 Thread Mike Kear
$20/Year - Original Message - From: Jim Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 00:52:50 -0400 Subject: RE: Displaying a dynamic map - how? To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] You don't have to tell me how much of a pain the ass maps can be.;^) The New Year's Eve site I do

Re: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-05 Thread Ricardo Russon
You could still do it in flash and cf using the loadVars() function. ?? Ricardo Mike Kear wrote: I have a prospective client - a real estate developer who has a subdivision we're proposing a site for. He wants a map of his subdivision and wants to have the colours of the various blocks

RE: Displaying a dynamic map - how?

2004-09-05 Thread Jim Davis
You can use Remoting in CF 5.0 - but you'd have to buy it.There are also several other methods to transfer information to Flash - you can use loadvars, pass in information as URL variables or as attributes in the Flash call in your HTML. Depending how irregular the patterns are you might be able