On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Olemis Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Olemis Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Olemis Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Roger Oberholtzer
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 07:47 -0500, Olemis Lang wrote:
>>>>
[...]
>>>>
>>>> I am sure google documented things for how they thought most folk would
>>>> use use them, which in an igoogle web page. To put the gadgets in an
>>>> unrelated web page, while obviously supported, seems more of a
>>>> challenge. Which is fine. I am up to the challenge.
>>>
>>> You're right. I have plans to integrate TracGViz with WYSIWYG plugin,
>>> but there are urgent issues that need to be closed before that, add to
>>> that I need to survive , and the subsequent (current) limited time
>>> (I'm also attending to some lectures ...) I have
>>>
>>> :-/
>>>
>>> It's a shame , but it seems the mystical beings (or whatever ...) have
>>> designed the world so that I cannot do what I like to do, and survive
>>> at the same time.
>>>
>>>
>>>> I guess there is a learning curve here. I am obviously not inserting
>>>> something into a spreadsheet at google (I want to use data in my Trac
>>>> page). Let's take the example of a map. I need to supply a file with
>>>> some sort of locations. How should they be formatted? Street addresses?
>>>> Lat/long? Other? There must surely be key words that are recognized in
>>>> the _table_query_url data source.
>>>
>>
>> I mean perhaps that's not the exact gadget you'r talking about, but
>> it's obvious that if the gadget author doesn't mention how to feed
>> data in then nobody can do it.
>>
>
> Maybe the most common solution for gadgets in this case could be to
> rely on a service (e.g. Google Maps ) and provide the id of the map to
> be embedded or OTOH to add an option to the gadget so that users may
> specify an URL pointing to KML files ... and both of them would be
> handled just fine using the current approach.
>
Or something like this gadget [1]_ which accepts queries to search for
locations, business and directions , but not parameter.
I'll write an entry to document how to use GMaps official gadget [2]_
so, please, take a look at the FAQ in a while ;o)
.. [1] Google Maps Gadget
(http://www.gmodules.com/ig/creator?synd=open&url=http%3A//sharing.ri.sch.edu.sg/maps.xml&pt=%26context%3Dd%26type%3Dgadgets%26synd%3Dig%26lang%3Den%26.lang%3Den%26country%3Dus%26.country%3Dus%26start%3D0%26num%3D1%26target%3Dbnb%26objs%3D&sn=bnb&lang=en)
.. [2] Google Maps Data Connector
(http://9tm49u91btpu7le36r63p2sj07eqiv5p.open.gmodules.com/ig/creator?synd=open&url=http%3A//www.google.com/ig/modules/map.xml&pt=%26context%3Dd%26type%3Dgadgets%26synd%3Dig%26lang%3Den%26.lang%3Den%26country%3Dus%26.country%3Dus%26start%3D0%26num%3D1%26target%3DFoc%26objs%3D923c3&sn=Foc&lang=en)
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Regards,
Olemis.
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