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Archived - Feedback and Comments / Google Maps
« on: April 05, 2005, 10:49:58 AM »
Yeah, since TopoFusion can be seen as competition for Google's Keyhole, I wonder how they'll respond. Will be interesting.
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Archived - Feedback and Comments / Google Maps
« on: March 22, 2005, 10:16:35 AM »
Yes, a plugin architecture for new map sources would be great, that's the direction I was thinking of as well. With proper design, data could be either local on disk, or fetched asynchronously over the net from another source. And it would save you (Krein) from having to write code for each data source.
The big catch might be in reconciling datums. Ideally (in the long run), TF would offer the plugins services to convert coordinates between UTM, state plane, etc. to easily match the data source's layout, and map rectification to warp the image to the right projection. In the short term, the plugins would have to do that themselves. Probably not trivial; haven't coded any of it.
The big catch might be in reconciling datums. Ideally (in the long run), TF would offer the plugins services to convert coordinates between UTM, state plane, etc. to easily match the data source's layout, and map rectification to warp the image to the right projection. In the short term, the plugins would have to do that themselves. Probably not trivial; haven't coded any of it.
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Archived Support / Google isn't indexing the forum?
« on: March 12, 2005, 12:26:27 AM »
Eek, am I blind?! It's right there. Yikes. Thanks!
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Archived Support / Importing routes from NG Topo! ?
« on: March 11, 2005, 01:38:21 PM »
I'd love to import the library of routes I've constructed using National Geographic Topo!. I've tried a few different export formats in Topo! with no luck.
For individual routes, I could have Topo! convert the route to a string of waypoints and import that, but that'd be a whole lot of tedious manual labor.
Any hints on importing them in bulk? Much appreciated.
For individual routes, I could have Topo! convert the route to a string of waypoints and import that, but that'd be a whole lot of tedious manual labor.
Any hints on importing them in bulk? Much appreciated.
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Archived - Feedback and Comments / Google Maps
« on: March 11, 2005, 01:24:22 PM »
Is the TopoFusion source set up to easily hook up to new data sources? Integration with Google Maps would be great. I've long thought about a few other sources:
1. the on-disk topo maps that come with National Geographic Topo! (which would require figuring out the file format) These are newer and nicer than the sets that TerraServer has.
2. my local county's GIS system, which has multiple sets of beautiful aerial photo coverages for the county. Could connect to it online/live. Alternately, could write separate code to download relevant tiles, retile them, and save to a cache format that TopoFusion understands.
I'd be curious to hear commens about the feasibility of any of those projects. I'm potentially available to help with coding.
1. the on-disk topo maps that come with National Geographic Topo! (which would require figuring out the file format) These are newer and nicer than the sets that TerraServer has.
2. my local county's GIS system, which has multiple sets of beautiful aerial photo coverages for the county. Could connect to it online/live. Alternately, could write separate code to download relevant tiles, retile them, and save to a cache format that TopoFusion understands.
I'd be curious to hear commens about the feasibility of any of those projects. I'm potentially available to help with coding.
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Archived Support / Google isn't indexing the forum?
« on: March 11, 2005, 01:18:32 PM »
Since the forum software doesn't seem to have a search option, I tried to search old posts using Google. No dice. Is crawling by spiders perhaps turned off with a robots.txt? If so, it'd be valuable to let the crawlers in and get the forums indexed.
Thanks!
Thanks!
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