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Andy B
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|  Posted 16-03-2007 at 18:34
More on this soon but here is something web site owners and others might like to try out:
Use the following type of link to display the Portal page that is closest to a particular long and lat:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?long=-3.643115&lat=51.052562
Substitute any number in the long= lat= positions.
+/- stand for North/South, East/West on the long and lat in the usual way
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Andy B
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| Posted 17-03-2007 at 03:37
New features currently under test on our Site Pages: GeoRSS and Yahoo Maps.
Look for the links that say
NEW: View this page with an embedded Yahoo Map
NEW: Download or link to a GeoRSS feed of these sites
There are two versions of Yahoo maps, a Flash one and a Javascript one. I will be trying both. We're using the flash one at the moment.
Note: If you are running the Firefox extension 'Flashblock' you will need to disable this or add www.megalithic.co.uk or www.megalithic.info to you whitelist of sites that are allowed to load Flash. Otherwise you won't see the map dots.
[ This message was edited by: Andy B on 2007-03-17 11:21 ]
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| Posted 19-03-2007 at 20:03
I've given the Yahoo maps a tweak to improve them, how are you finding these?
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| Posted 19-03-2007 at 21:41
I also have a separate script just to generate GeoRSS feeds of our nearest sites based on a long and lat that you send as follows:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/georss.php?long=85.836203&lat=20.243624&limit=50
The variable 'limit' defaults to 50 nearest sites and has a maximum of 250 at the moment.
Once run, each query also generates a static .xml output as a cached version, with the file name based on 6 decimal places of long and lat, like this:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/cache/georss_85.836203_20.243624.xml
There are all sorts of things that webmasters will be able to do with this, eg offer links on their pages to the nearest 25 locations around a point that are listed on the Portal, or to draw maps combining our data with data from other sources...
If other web sites were also to offer GeoRSS feeds then the Portal could reciprocate this, and offer links on our pages to the nearest 25 locations from other web databases...
Cheers,
Andy
[ This message was edited by: Andy B on 2007-03-19 21:45 ]
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