[svg-developers] Re: Plotting Latitude and Longitude on an SVG map

2005-05-24 Thread Jim Ley
"matthewbaker77" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > There is a sample perl script in the book "spidering hacks" which is > currently available in bookstores. The code in the book has an > error in it but you would need to adapt it anyway. I imagine Mapping Hacks will

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Plotting Latitude and Longitude on an SVG map

2005-05-24 Thread Ronan Oger
I've seen Perl modules for this. take a look at CPAN at http://search.cpan.org and look for keywords such as: Postcode or Map or Convert or Calc Longitude or Latitude or WGS You might find stuff there... Alternatively, go ask the OpenGuides people how they do it... Ronan On Wednesday 18 May 20

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Plotting Latitude and Longitude on an SVG map

2005-05-19 Thread Peter Thompson
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[svg-developers] Re: Plotting Latitude and Longitude on an SVG map

2005-05-19 Thread matthewbaker77
Yeah, it took me forever to figure out how to get this data. It is a hack actually.. MSN maps will return the latitude and longitude in the header. All you do is create a script to submit the address to MSN maps and then parse through the header. There is a sample perl script in the book "spi

Re: [svg-developers] Re: Plotting Latitude and Longitude on an SVG map

2005-05-18 Thread Peter Thompson
Matt, If you can, please tell us how you convert post office addresses to latitude/longitude. Peter __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message h

[svg-developers] Re: Plotting Latitude and Longitude on an SVG map

2005-05-17 Thread matthewbaker77
Wow, that worked great!! I didn't have time to code the projection but it looks great even without one. I will add a projection algorhythm later. I found a hack to get latitude / longitude data from post office addresses. I plotted the coordinates on the map and their placement was perfectl