Re: (REAL TUFFY ) Lat/Long Map Image Manipulation

Give this a looksee http://forums.devshed.com/archive/5/2003/01/3/49795 Quoting Joe Harman <joe@harmanmedia.com>: > Okay this is a tuffy! I am really just looking for someone to point me > in the right direction, or tutorials or something! maybe ideas > > 1st - I have created a Lat and Long distance calculator... it takes 2 > user inputed zip codes... accesses the MySQL DB for the Lat and Longs... > then figures out the distance between them... > > Now there are 2 things I want to do here... take a map of the US... > PNG.. GIF... what ever... and associate the Lat/Long with coordinates on > the image... like a image map in HTML (sort of) - the first thing I want > to do is draw a line from point A to point B (on the map)... the second > is draw a circle for a search radius... > > hmmm... it would also be cool if the image could be zoomed in on.... > like... scaled down to 100 mile x 100 miles... and then show the 75 mile > radius circle.... > > okay, that's enough for now... hope someone can point me in the right > direction > > Joe Harman > > http://www.HarmanMedia.com > > Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying > of nothing. - Redd Foxx > >