Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Patrick saving the day again!

cool - thanks to my brother, people are now able to choose which color their point should be. PATRICK - YOU ROCK!

Qmaps, prison maps, and our progress report

Qmaps allows you to build your own custom map editor. Way beyond what we are doing, but inspiring. The Tunisian Prisoners Map shows two-tabbed info windows with video from YouTube, and other variations. How hard will it be to incorporate video to our map?
The kml for the watershed outline works, but the clipped municipal and county boundaries files are still too big to load. we will have to figure out something else.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Toggle my KML

The raster KML works on our practice map with a simple toggle function. We created KML files of political boundaries related to the watershed, but they are too big to load. We will clip by watershed and try again.
Almost all images are matched with lat and long, resized and ready for uploading.
Finally we have mousewheel zoom.

Monday, June 11, 2007

working for Riverkeeper June 11 - 15


we are finishing up details in preparation to actually handing over the map to the Riverkeeper organization. although we haven't gotten it to work on our site yet, here's what the kml image overlay looks like when we tested it on maps.google.com: