[aprssig] Google maps
Steve Dimse
steve at dimse.com
Sat Jul 2 17:34:54 EDT 2005
For those of you that have browsers able to access the development
google map page, the system is now displaying callsign and icon. The
icon set is the same up-to-date one (from WA8LMF) that is used in the
plot cgi. It works through a new cgi which uses that icon set to
generate a new icon which includes the callsign and the icon, it is
this new icon which is passed to google. For kicks, you can see this
new cgi here, though end users have no need to use this directly:
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/gmapicon.cgi?call=K4HG-8&icon=/-
Here is the development URL again to try:
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find1.cgi?call=WT4X-4,K4HG
The down side of this is that because the icon size must be passed in
javasscript to the gmap routine, there is no way I can see to adjust
for different length callsigns. Therefore short calls will have
clickable areas that extend well beyond the text.
For those of you with IE 6, if you want to play I still need to see
some sort of error log to help figure this out...
Next up, to add the station info, like course and speed, to the pop-
up balloon...
Steve K4HG
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