I've been working on getting points mapped and shown on an image in an openoffice document.
I'm asking with the list to see if I can get some ideas or if this is already done somewhere, perhaps I can avoid reinventing the wheel. Basically I'm using the method described here<http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=14979&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0>to load an image from a URL into a document as a bitmap. What I'd like to do is use GPS coordinates from a database and show a few on each page mapped as a group. It's just an address list that shows all points on the map. A few ideas I have... 1) Look around for sample code to determine the tiles and zoomlevels that would holds the bounds I'd need to show all points in my set. I'd still have to figure out how to draw another image on top putting the points on the right spot as well as how to make sure the images line up if I need several tiles. 2) Find some sort of online API or website that will let me give it a set of points by encoding them into a URL and then download an image. I tried playing around with GPSvisualizer since waypoints can be put into the URL but the result is a full webpage with layers and javascript, not a simple image. I tried the JPEG export options but that doesn't allow an OSM background for whatever reason. 3) Find some sample javascript that does exactly what I need and get that to run in Openoffice as a macro since javascript is supported. So it seems my best options are #2 and #3. Maybe someone already knows where there's already a service or code to do close to what I need. Any other suggestions are appreciated as well. Thanks, -Don.
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