wwp@yahoogroups.com:
Re : GPS data
Thomas Rauscher 2005-Sep-28 18:46:00
Hello Don/Markus,
on Tuesday, September 27, 2005, 17:19:25 you wrote:
GDB> I would like to see Google Maps on the site (or directly accessible
GDB> from the site). Also Google Earth, World Wind, maybe others.
I have tested Google Maps with the WWP data, and I think, this doesn't
will work, because Google Maps uses Javascript to do the magic, and
it's getting very slow with >100 entries. To resolve this, you would
have to split the interface to preselect the area and than add only
these. It think this will not look very nice, because if you move
outside this "Hotspot" you will not see any panoramas.
A very nice addition would be direct links from the WWP pages to
Worldwind and Google Earth. For Worldwind its very similar to
multimap. Just add a link like
<a href="worldwind://goto/lat=49.603028&lon=8.9928056&altitude=30000">WW</a>
For today's "Panorama of the day".
To do the same for Google Earth is a little bit more complicated. You have
to return a .kml file which looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0">
<LookAt>
<name>Temporary Location for LAT 49.603028 LON 8.9928056</name>
<longitude>8.9928056</longitude><latitude>49.603028</latitude><tilt>0</tilt>
<range>10000</range>
<heading>0</heading>
</LookAt>
</kml>
I have created a small php script which do this trick.
Currently I dynamically change the WWP pages with a Firefox
greacemonkey script to add these to links to the multimap links.
Greacemonkey is available from
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=748
The script can be found at:
http://bilder.sinnfrei.at/worldwind/link_wwp_to_worldwind_2.user.js
GDB> Markus is the technical member of this team, so his assessment of
GDB> feasibility is critical. Sounds like we have lots of interest and
GDB> talent in the group to do it right.
I will help wherever I can!
MfG,
Thomas.