Re: PHP map?

Start at ftp://sepftp.stanford.edu/pub/World_Map/ which is a copy of the CIA world data. http://hjem.get2net.dk/bnielsen/ciaworld.html gives some info for conversion of the cbd format to lat/long. Projections (a science unto itself) is best left to the interested reader. It ain't as simpla as it seems (unless you're going for Mercator - but Mercator isn't one of the better projections unless you're a sailor ...) Mark C. ----- Original Message ----- From: <zerosumzero@yahoo.com> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 6:08 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] PHP map? > on 7/7/01 3:36 PM, Chris Lambert - WhiteCrown Networks at > chris@whitecrown.net wrote: > > > You'd pretty much have to do that pixel by pixel. What exactly do you want > > the final application to do...often times there are alternative solutions > > derived at by others knowing what you wish to accomplish. > > > Well I was hoping there'd be something that was a bunch of vectors. If you > got to my site you'll se what I'm up to It's basically a > > > http://www.futurebird.com/mapbuild3 > *** very rough > > > I'm making a site that will allow users to upload a map and add 'events' to > it. The events can include photographs and comments, possibly even sound > clips and such. > > You can choose to share your map and to link it to similar maps. You can > make user groups and share all of your events. You can view events from any > area as a time line. Or look at events from any time period as a map. You > can chain events and make a map that shows how the event chain moved through > space (or didn't.) > > It's "postmodern" because <i>anyone</i> can contribute and because > events > can countian conflicting accounts and information. (Just like real history!) > I'm going to using it for my online diary because I want to see where I was > when I was thinking or seeing something (personal obssesion... sorry) But it > has lots of other uses... > > So I wanted to see if there was a vector map I could use as the "main" map > that all the other maps will be linked to. > > > Susan > > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >