RE: that map

2003-04-09 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Danny Angus wrote: It would be great to have a javascript wizard working on the UI, at least on mozilla it is a bit fragile. Oh yes, it doesn't work for me, better break out MSIE (cough cough!). http://www.asemantics.com/showcase/zoom.html may be a bit more

Re: that map

2003-04-09 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Santiago Gala wrote: I think both approaches are nice. I would change the imagemap you quote Or have predefined maps for those area's. populated areas like Central Europe, East Coast and California. But still, the map in indexable by search engines, while the zoomable

that map

2003-04-08 Thread Danny Angus
I've just got round to adding myself to the map (http://cvs.apache.org/~sgala/map.html), late as usual. Well done everyone involved, I love it. Everyone else.. get yourselves on the map so I can see where you live. d

Re: that map

2003-04-08 Thread Ben Hyde
Danny Angus wrote: I've just got round to adding myself to the map (http://cvs.apache.org/~sgala/map.html), late as usual. Well done everyone involved, I love it. Everyone else.. get yourselves on the map so I can see where you live. Instructions: cvs -d cvs.apache.org:/home/cvs checkout

Re: that map

2003-04-08 Thread Ben Hyde
Doesn't work in emacs via w3 either! - ben On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at 09:11 AM, Danny Angus wrote: It would be great to have a javascript wizard working on the UI, at least on mozilla it is a bit fragile. Oh yes, it doesn't work for me, better break out MSIE (cough cough!). d.

Re: that map

2003-04-08 Thread David Reid
Now, now Danny - don't exaggerate :) david Look at http://cvs.apache.org/~dirkx/sgala.html there is a zoomable map, courtesy of asemantics and dirkx. Awesome! I zoomed right in, I swear I could almost see myself through the open window ;-) d

Re: that map

2003-04-08 Thread Ben Laurie
David Reid wrote: Now, now Danny - don't exaggerate :) Yeah, we've told you a million times not to... Cheers, Ben. david Look at http://cvs.apache.org/~dirkx/sgala.html there is a zoomable map, courtesy of asemantics and dirkx. Awesome! I zoomed right in, I swear I could almost see myself

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
the source of earth does not seem to exist today, in http://gw.marketingden.com/planets/planets.html seems to be the original source of the map. Added this to the WMS server; should be visible tomorrow after the update :-) One thing I like about using jabber presence is that you can switch status

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
+ in /etc/passwd. From an architectural point some things I'm thinking about. 1. The data gathering should be separate from the report/map generation. 2. Privacy policy statements are badly needed, particularly when you want to display more interesting data, like time of last commit

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-02 Thread Ben Laurie
the 600+ in /etc/passwd. From an architectural point some things I'm thinking about. 1. The data gathering should be separate from the report/map generation. 2. Privacy policy statements are badly needed, particularly when you want to display more interesting data, like time of last commit

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 ease

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

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
activities... That would be neat. For the map to be a where we are?, the URL should be a reasonable home page, and a FullName field (like in /etc/passwd) could be added to be used as TITLE (althoug [EMAIL PROTECTED] is already public info). Alternatively, a second URL with the true home page would

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-01 Thread Santiago Gala
/map.html I had to do some dirty tricks to get it working, cause xplanet will not label markers without showing the label. So I use a 1pt label with the user name (generated through the private_map.jpg) to build the map and then the map.jpg to display. It is noticeable that people with long

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
downloading the jar you pointed us to, to know more. xplanet can be sliced to show only parts of the world. So we could have a fixed imagemap with zones, also generated at a bigger scale, or use the xplanet images as background for the WMS map. Ben started rather static WRT display. I'm just adding

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-01 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
than img src=... xplanet can be sliced to show only parts of the world. So we could have a fixed imagemap with zones, also generated at a bigger scale, or use the xplanet images as background for the WMS map. Ah nice. Ben started rather static WRT display. I'm just adding tooltips and links

Re: How get on the map!

2003-02-01 Thread Santiago Gala
the xplanet images as background for the WMS map. Ah nice. Ben started rather static WRT display. I'm just adding tooltips and links to the URLs given. I saw that. Nice. The map1 variant would need to be recalculated to show true nigh and day, something like once an hour, at least. It also uses

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