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Re: Another GPS-driven world map
Landis 2004-Oct-02 21:57:00
Markus,
You rocked my world! That's absolutely amazing.
I'll be in touch with you by email about a database as well as how to
do this with my current site generator scripts.
VERY nice.
-Landis
>OK, so i couldn't resist, too:
>
>http://www.panoramas.de/panoramas/wwpmap/
>
>This one is based on the cloudless 40000x20000 pixel earth image
>(scaled down to 2000x1000) from the NASA blue marble project
>(website quote: "These images are freely available to educators,
>scientists, museums, and the public." - so i guess this is not
>any kind of copyright violation...)
>
>I used server-side PHP/MySQL to create CSS positioned animated
>dots of the panoramas, and Javascript to have previews show/hide
>side of the dots when the mouse pointer passes over a marker.
>This should work with any IE above 5 (couldn't test with earlier
>versions) and anything Mozilla/Netscape above Netscape 4.
>
>The database supports pre-filtering (currently the filter is
>hard-coded for "wwp904"). I've hacked the GPS coordinates from A
>to J into it, but got tired... ;-) will wait until the list is
>final, of course if the admins drop me a database readout, this
>would also help ;-). Currently, it's got a problem with targets
>very close to each other (i.e. if the markers land on top of each
>other, it only responds to the top-most one - should build a list
>of targets instead...)
>
>If anyone wants the code for it, i'm glad to offer it to anyone
>interested. There's nothing special to it, and it's badly
>annotated ;-)
>
>-Markus