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Re: Another GPS-driven world map
A Y R T O N 2004-Oct-03 13:24:00
That is really amazing.
Great idea.
Well done.
AYRTON
> Am 02.10.2004 um 22:10 schrieb Markus Altendorff:
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>> OK, so i couldn't resist, too:
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>> http://www.panoramas.de/panoramas/wwpmap/
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>> 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...)
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>> 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.
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>> 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 ;-)
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>> -Markus
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