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.

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.

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:

review with Sarah

Our jpg KML works in maps.google.com but not in our google maps mashup. we think it has something to do with the image file so we will try to use a vector shapefile (municipalities, for instance) to create another KML. It also could be a version issue, but we're not sure so this would help us figure it out. another way to trouble shoot would be to test other image overlay KMLs...
superProf Sean White has made it possible for us to upload to the server he set up with tomcat so we have some more jsp fun ahead of us.

Things left to do: (revised, smaller expectations)
add all images
figure out vector kml
give it to Riverkeeper and talk to their IT guys about how they want to go ahead.

another great googlemaps link

Jeremiah at the Electronic Data Service

EDS has the KML extension for GIS that we don't have permissions to install here, so we went over to Lerner Library and Jeremiah helped us migrate a piece of the DEM into KML. Some trickiness with raster calculator - we had to make each cell value an integer so image processing software could read the tif, so it could be resaved as a smaller quality jpg.
our first try at bringing river.kml into googlemaps resulted in only a marker being generated instead of the whole image. This is what we're working on now, testing the kml by pasting it into the search box on www.maps.google.com.

We made a new home page which unifies the presentation of our efforts. We also added a field to the form reading code so now we have "image", "source", and "location URL" as fields to be filled in. We have formatted the entire text file so that all our GPSd points load in the main map, although we still need to add in all the image URLs.

recap - what's left to do:

Google just released "MyMaps" which looks great.
here's our to do list, since we have to let this sit until the studio finishes:
1. migrate town and village boundaries shapefile through Google earth pro to KML. add to map as using GeoRSS overlay.
2. learn how to use different icons that people can choose by category.
3. customize the appearance of the info window.
4. combine php with jsp - will need help on that one.
5. replace the text file with an updated csv file.

its go time....in 10 days.