On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Douglas Burke <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/2/10 3:19 PM, P Kishor wrote: >> I have started a map of PDL Users Worldwide [1], which can be reached >> from [2]. I don't know how to edit the PDL wiki to embed the map >> directly in it, hence, the map on my personal web site. >> >> The data for the map is in a Google Fusion Table, which, >> unfortunately, I can't figure out how to allow anyone to edit. So, I >> have created a Google Spreadsheet at [3] which can be edited by >> anyone. Once folks have added more entries to [3], I will reimport the >> data into [2], thereby updating [1]. Or, in the meantime, I will >> figure out how to -- >> >> (a) Allow anyone to update the mappable table directly, and >> (b) Embed the map in the PDL wiki so the map is no longer on my >> personal web site. >> >> So, please go to [3] and add your place, discipline, latitude, and >> longitude (use decimal degrees, not NSEW junk. West and South are >> negative.). >> >> [1] http://punkish.org/PDL-Users-Worldwide >> [2] >> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pdl/index.php?title=A_Map_of_PDL_Users_Worldwide >> [3] >> http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am3SSF48QCE9dERjcko2YWNrSzJVLUZLd1QyaldsYXc&hl=en >> > > If you wanted to get really fancy, you could use Exhibit [1] to view the > spread sheet (I believe there is an almost tunr-key for it to use data > from a google spreadsheet), which would allow you to add other fields to > track at the expense of more hassle...
Thanks, but I don't want to get too fancy, esp. at the expense of more hassle. Step by step. Once we have a sufficient number of points, and I have figured out how to move the map to PDL wiki (where it really belongs), then we can think of other mods. By the way, does anyone know how I can add an iframe to that darn PDL wiki? > > [1] http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/ > > Doug > > > _______________________________________________ > Perldl mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
