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Re: MultiMap More or Less
Luca Vascon 2004-Oct-06 21:06:00
:-PPP
Equirectangular for equirectangular....
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From: "Markus Altendorff" <#removed#>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 12:15 AM
Subject: Re: MultiMap More or Less
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> > On Oct 5, 2004, at 12:27 PM, Dave 360texas.com wrote:
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> >> The photographer know their work and the coordinates.. let them be
> >> responsible for the accuracy. Might make a small note on the online
> >> form about accuracy by putting "0" for "seconds" for less accurate.
> >
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> Programmer's opinion chiming in here: Putting seconds to "0" may
> be a problem if the readout IS actually zero for a location. I'd
> prefer two separate checkboxes labelled
> "[ ] do not publish precise location" and
> "[ ] no valid GPS data" to avoid ambiguity in the database ("was
> this zero, or is this supposed to be private?")
> Then we could do this:
> - those that checked the "do not publish precise location" would
> not have a link to MultiMap on their page
> - presenting the location on the large map will usually not
> sacrifice privacy, because with 1 px. = 5 km, this won't give
> away anything.
> - create a "non-mapped" list of panoramas without valid GPS and
> present it on an empty area on the world map, if necessary, for
> those that do not want or can not give a GPS coordinate (because
> i guess the map may be quite popular for browsing the panoramas...)
> - and if you really don't want to give away a GPS, you could
> check "do not publish precise location" and add or subtract a
> minute or two from the GPS. Even a rough estimation of the
> location would be enough to look good on the map :-)
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> Of course, i'm also lazy enough to advocate the use of decimal
> coordinates in the database ;-) but that shouldn't be a problem -
> a simple four-field form with "enter D/M/S [ ] [ ] [ ] or decimal
> [ ]" and a small converter javascript could easily handle this
> right when entering the data. Decimal is needed for the MultiMap
> call and my map programming is easier if i don't have to do the D
> + M/60 + S/3600 thing ;-)
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> -Markus
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