Re: Time to update list of contributors
От | Magnus Hagander |
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Тема | Re: Time to update list of contributors |
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Msg-id | 20071130113237.GD21642@svr2.hagander.net обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: Time to update list of contributors (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>) |
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Re: Time to update list of contributors
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Список | pgsql-www |
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 10:32:28AM -0500, Robert Treat wrote: > On Wednesday 28 November 2007 16:09, Magnus Hagander wrote: > > Josh Berkus wrote: > > > Magnus, > > > > > >> We could probably do that fairly easily by just using the google maps > > >> API. > > >> > > >> We used to have a dev map, but it was individually updated. Might be > > >> easier to do now that there are services out there to do it for us.. > > > > > > Yeah. Too bad we don't have access to some kind of GIS database or > > > something which we could use to generate a map. ;-) > > > > Well, we have a GIS database, but we don't have the mapping data :-P > > Well, it is easy to do it via google maps API. I did this once before on my > old dev installed, which I'm pretty sure was trashed, but could be redone. > You need to store everyones lat/lon, and then generate an xml file with the > proper info, but it's not to tricky. Granted using a service based on > PostGIS would be cooler, but I've not yet seen one as simple to use as > google's stuff. You can also use Googles API to get the lat/long of a city center as a good starting point, so you don't have to figure out peoples specific lat/long. Which helps to get things off the ground :-) //Magnus
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