Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Floor Plan - Map - Drawing Software

2018-07-16 Thread jeff haskell
Hi Benjamin, Thanks so much for sharing that floor plan. Looks great! I'm wondering if Inkscape would be easy to use to create one detailing the collection on each shelf? Patrons walk into the library and want to know where Fiction is, Mystery is (on a separate shelf, Biography, Non-Fiction, et

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Floor Plan - Map - Drawing Software

2018-07-16 Thread jeff haskell
Hi Jeff, My apologies for my tardy gratitude. Slammed at work! I'm helping co-workers "unofficially" so we don't have any budget for this. It sounds like you're doing what we're tying to do for free and easy since we're not adroit with drawing software. I'd love to see your final product if yo

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Floor Plan - Map - Drawing Software

2018-07-16 Thread jeff haskell
Hi Jim, I LOVE that! How does one "program the GPS" to a library shelf? My apologies for my tardy reply - slammed at a new job. Thank you ever so much. J. Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 21:36:20 -0500 From: "Jim Taylor" To: "'Evergreen Discussion Group'" Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Floo

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Floor Plan - Map - Drawing Software

2018-07-16 Thread Jim Taylor
Again, going from memory and what little I know of GEO-Location stuff...Also, Google has a full suite of Geo-Location API's one can use. You would have to go to each shelf and determine the GPS coordinates and then map those to the call# (obviously variations on this but trying to keep it simpl

Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Floor Plan - Map - Drawing Software

2018-07-16 Thread Jim Taylor
The Google Geo-Location API now has a fee associated with it. Free to a point but never know when they will change that. Depends on how much such a thing would be worth to you. You can provide your own tiles with the API so very flexible in that regard. Assuming you could layout your enti