Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-03 Thread Ben Hyde
a hi-rez version of that background map http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?11656 http://www.radcyberzine.com/xglobe/ http://awka.sourceforge.net/xglobe.html My favorite? http://flatplanet.sourceforge.net/maps/images/1678k5.jpg

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-03 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Santiago Gala wrote: http://apollo.spaceports.com/~jhasting/images/earthmaps/earthmap2k.jpg http://apollo.spaceports.com/~jhasting These links are dead now. http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/viewrecord?5826 I've asked for this one - should be no problem. While the

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-02 Thread Steven Noels
Santiago Gala wrote: I would like feedback about committing some of these changes or sending patches for further processing. You might check http://www.skep.tk/newsquakes/ for some other 'hovering labels on an imagemap' example. /Steven -- Steven Noels

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-02 Thread Ben Hyde
Dirk-Willem, Santiago - too cool! Thanks to all for fixing my typos and adding more doco! I can't make maps at until I convince one of the machines in my house to build a version of xworld with tiff and gif||png support. 39 people in committers/urls.txt, but that's a small subset the 600+ in

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-02 Thread Ben Laurie
Ben Hyde wrote: Dirk-Willem, Santiago - too cool! Thanks to all for fixing my typos and adding more doco! I can't make maps at until I convince one of the machines in my house to build a version of xworld with tiff and gif||png support. 39 people in committers/urls.txt, but that's a small subset

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-02 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Ben Hyde wrote: I can't make maps at until I convince one of the machines in my house to build a version of xworld with tiff and gif||png support. Well - if either Santiago or you send me a hi-rez version of that background map - then I can automate the layering with

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-01 Thread Ben Hyde
I've moved the map here: http://cvs.apache.org/~bhyde/map.jpg Too many enhancements in one day... - ben On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 05:31 PM, Ben Hyde wrote: The map is looking better. http://www.cozy.org/ben/map.jpg 21 locations known plus 4 more in urls.jpg who are keeping their

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-01 Thread David Crossley
Wow, great work Ben and Santiago. I added to the FAQ to explain geographic co-ordinates. Some people have their latitude and longitude reversed. The obvious ones are: bdelacretaz, gstein, jwoolley --David Ben Hyde wrote: I've moved the map here: http://cvs.apache.org/~bhyde/map.jpg

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-01 Thread Ben Hyde
Santiago Gala wrote: I'm thinking that the best way to show the names, ... Apparently the radius label doesn't work in marker files for my version of xplanet. I'm sure I saw examples of labels floating in space over the markers on the globe. Meanwhile I'm musing about some kind of policy

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-01 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Ben Hyde wrote: slap a WMS (Open GIS Web Mapping Server) interface over it - so one can doe things like zoom in; or change the background, add roads, etc. Oh that would be neat! nearly done :-) Dw.

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-01 Thread Santiago Gala
Ben Hyde wrote: Santiago Gala wrote: I'm thinking that the best way to show the names, ... Apparently the radius label doesn't work in marker files for my version of xplanet. I'm sure I saw examples of labels floating in space over the markers on the globe. I think a html USEMAP , with the

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-01 Thread Santiago Gala
Ben Hyde wrote: Santiago Gala wrote: I'm thinking that the best way to show the names, ... Apparently the radius label doesn't work in marker files for my version of xplanet. I'm sure I saw examples of labels floating in space over the markers on the globe. Try

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-01 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Santiago Gala wrote: http://cvs.apache.org/~sgala/map1.html Very nice. Is there any way we could combine this with WMS - so we can offer zoom/panning with ease. Dw. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-01 Thread Santiago Gala
Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Santiago Gala wrote: http://cvs.apache.org/~sgala/map1.html Very nice. Is there any way we could combine this with WMS - so we can offer zoom/panning with ease. I'm not a GIS expert at all, and I'm not sure if I understand. I'm currently

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-01 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Santiago Gala wrote: I'm not a GIS expert at all, and I'm not sure if I understand. I'm currently downloading the jar you pointed us to, to know more. Essentially the url demo.asemantics.com/wms/asf?request=GetCapabilities gives you metadata - in there you find that you

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-01 Thread Santiago Gala
Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Santiago Gala wrote: I'm not a GIS expert at all, and I'm not sure if I understand. I'm currently downloading the jar you pointed us to, to know more. Essentially the url demo.asemantics.com/wms/asf?request=GetCapabilities gives you metadata - in

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-01 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Santiago Gala wrote: We should probably need a tool to merge several images into one, I imagine. Or just clever HTML/css ? .. I'll clean a little bit, and commit (if it is clean enough) or send a patch with the generate_map.pl which generates the html file to the list,

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-01 Thread Santiago Gala
Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Santiago Gala wrote: We should probably need a tool to merge several images into one, I imagine. Or just clever HTML/css ? I'm not at all an expert in writing CSS stuff, but it sure is a good idea. .. I'll clean a little bit, and commit (if it is