In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William S.) wrote:
>Is there a mailing list just dedicated to gdlib >or any places that show a gallery with examples? >I would be interested in seeing examples >of images that are complex/artistic and beyond >simple rectangles and boxes. It's a work in progress, but you may find these images of interest: http://chatmusic.com/maplocater.htm Those ugly red circles (I am not a Designer) and the longitude/latitude lines are coming from a database of ~2000 music venues for touring musicians to utilize (http://chatmusic.com/venues.htm). Only the World -> US "demo path" is working at this time. Pages after that are "in development" Knock yourself out uploading more detailed maps, if that is working at the time you play, but no promise I'll keep them... Anyway, in spite of the paucity of maps, there is some non-trivial data being overlaid onto the underlying regional images, and the longitude/latitude and "red dot" data is all being computed on-the-fly. The original images are: http://chatmusic.com/visual/maps/worldmap.jpg http://chatmusic.com/visual/maps/continentalus.jpg The red dots, the long/lat lines, and the AREA tags are all being generated from PostgreSQL data. PostgreSQL lets me do some of the AREA tag computations of intersection and other fun "region" calculations in SQL :-) I still need to hook in the Radio stations (http://chatmusic.com/broadcast.htm) with blue dots, and music store retailers (green dots, of course) and ... Well, let's just say I've got a lot of work to do. :-) Eventually (in glacial time, at the moment) I'm hoping to have a large-scale OpenContent model of geographic data and data-servers in a distributed application powered by PHP... Then anybody on the planet could have complete access to geographic/zip/street/location data for free. More importantly, contributors could upload maps of the area[s] that interest them for a truly OpenContent distributed paradigm. Source code is too chaotic to be made public at this time. Will post when/if that changes. Anybody interested in funding this effort is most welcome to email me :-) NOTE: Yes, the long/lat are horribly inaccurate as you approach the poles on that first map. No, I don't care because: A) I can swap in a different map that is not logarithmic and change a few db records when I have time. B) The whole point is to "zoom in" to more detailed/accurate maps (down to neighborhood level) C) The click-able regions are defined independent of the long/lat lines. D) There just aren't a hell of a lot of music venues at the North/South pole. :-) -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
