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Re: Another GPS-driven world map
Mickael Therer 2004-Oct-02 22:52:00
Markus,
this is beautiful, just BEAUTIFUL
-m
--- In #removed#, Markus Altendorff <#removed#> wrote:
> 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