3 Nov
2006
3 Nov
'06
5:13 p.m.
Hi,
I am trying to set-up an OpenGuide for New York. The installation worked well, but I was
expecting to see a google map for my first (test) page:
http://newyork.linke.de/myguide/wiki.cgi?Angelo's_Pizza
But it does not look right. Am I missing a step?
Many thanks,
Markus
PS: I have a google maps api key and it is configured in my wiki.conf
3 Nov
3 Nov
5:23 p.m.
I am trying to set-up an OpenGuide for New York.
Great! Let us know how you get on or want to be linked in from the
project homepage when you get going.
The installation worked well, but I was expecting to
see a google map for my first (test) page:
http://newyork.linke.de/myguide/wiki.cgi?Angelo's_Pizza
But it does not look right. Am I missing a step?
PS: I have a google maps api key and it is configured
in my wiki.conf
The current default is for maps not to appear unless the user sets it in
the User Preferences. This default should probably be changed now that
the Google Maps functionality is well-tested and used.
Cheers,
Dominic.
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5:25 p.m.
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
also doesnt actaully having the long and lat set help as well?
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But it does
not look right. Am I missing a step?
PS: I have a google maps api key and it is
configured in my wiki.conf
The current default is for maps not to appear unless the user sets it in
the User Preferences. This default should probably be changed now that
the Google Maps functionality is well-tested and used.
5:27 p.m.
would I have to set it or does openguides use the address?
----- Bob Walker <bob(a)randomness.org.uk> wrote:
| On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
| also doesnt actaully having the long and lat set help as well?
5:41 p.m.
Ok, I have added long/lat (copy+paste from the google link) and I can see the google maps
graphics now, but it is about half an hour away from the actual street address. Whats the
easiest way to gather this information? Can't OpenGuides process the address fields?
----- Markus Linke <markus.linke(a)linke.de> wrote:
| would I have to set it or does openguides use the address?
5:46 p.m.
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Markus Linke wrote:
Ok, I have added long/lat (copy+paste from the google
link)
You'll need to zoom a long way in, otherwise the google link will probably
be for one edge of the screen, not the centre
Whats the easiest way to gather this information?
GPS?
Can't OpenGuides process the address fields?
"process" the address fields? What did you have in mind it processing them
against? (I don't know of any free services where you give them an
address, and they give you back a lat+long)
Nick
5:51 p.m.
Ok, I googled around and found:
http://www.batchgeocode.com/lookup/
which does the job, now the address is correct;
I think there is a google-maps function to translate street address to long/lat, will need
to check ...
Many thanks everybody!
----- Nick Burch <openguides(a)gagravarr.org> wrote:
| On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Markus Linke wrote:
| You'll need to zoom a long way in, otherwise the google link will
| probably
| be for one edge of the screen, not the centre
| GPS?
| "process" the address fields? What did you have in mind it processing
| them
| against? (I don't know of any free services where you give them an
| address, and they give you back a lat+long)
|
| Nick
5:53 p.m.
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 05:46:13PM +0000, Nick Burch wrote:
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Markus Linke wrote:
Geocoder.us does this for the US. Google and Yahoo offer this for the
world, with typical limitations on use. MetaCarta offers a service which
will allow you to do this, but the license is non-commercial and the API
is not supported.
It's not impossible, but it's not 'Free' in the sense that OpenGuides
typically is.
Regards,
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Web Developer
Ok, I have added long/lat (copy+paste from the
google link)
You'll need to zoom a long way in, otherwise the google link will probably
be for one edge of the screen, not the centre
Whats the easiest way to gather this information?
GPS?
Can't OpenGuides process the address fields?
"process" the address fields? What did you have in mind it processing them
against? (I don't know of any free services where you give them an
address, and they give you back a lat+long) 
6:01 p.m.
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Christopher Schmidt wrote:
Google and Yahoo offer this for the world, with
typical limitations on
use.
So one option might be to use the API at display time, if google maps is
enabled, we have an address, but don't have a lat+long
That way, we don't store (and subsequently try to distribute) the google
derived lat+long, but we do can show you a map
Nick
5:52 p.m.
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:41:02AM -0600, Markus Linke wrote:
Ok, I have added long/lat (copy+paste from the google
link) and I can see the google maps graphics now, but it is about half an hour away from
the actual street address. Whats the easiest way to gather this information? Can't
OpenGuides process the address fields?
OpenGuides does not process this information, because there is no 'free'
datasource for this information for the world. Therefore, any geocoder
you use will impose a license restriction on the dataset, which is
contrary to what most users of the software are interested in.
There are a number of geocoders available, and some guides have
integrated geocoding: The united states is easy, because geocoder.us
offers the support you need.
I have a patch to the code that uses GeoCoder.us -- however, there are
some issues surrounding using it as a geocoder. The API license states
that information retrieved from tat data source is licensed not for
commercial use, so if you are interested in a 'free' license without a
NC restriction, you would need to purchase access to geocoder.us.
If you are interested in this route or other sources of geocoding,
please feel free to respond, and we can work on solving your problem in
the short term at least (Where we = 'me', not 'OpenGuides developers'
neccesarily) and figure out what restrictions you're willing to accept.
Regards,
--
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer
6:06 p.m.
| I have a patch to the code that uses GeoCoder.us -- however, there
| are
| some issues surrounding using it as a geocoder. The API license
| states
| that information retrieved from tat data source is licensed not for
| commercial use, so if you are interested in a 'free' license without
| a
| NC restriction, you would need to purchase access to geocoder.us.
|
| If you are interested in this route or other sources of geocoding,
| please feel free to respond, and we can work on solving your problem
| in
That would be great!
Thanks,
Markus
6:17 p.m.
----- Dominic Hargreaves <dom(a)earth.li> wrote:
| Great! Let us know how you get on or want to be linked in from the
| project homepage when you get going.
A link for New York would be excellent! It's installed in its final location, now I
only have to add content but that will come over time ... will add some graphics
(especially for the header) tonight ...
4 Nov
4 Nov
1:42 a.m.
Hi Markus,
I'm guessing you have a degree of control over your hosting... have
you thought about asking for newyork.openguides.org? Dom should be
able to set this up for you (or at least ask the right person -
paulm?) if it's not a hotly contended name.
Best of luck with the OGNY :D
Tom.
On 03/11/06, Markus Linke <markus.linke(a)linke.de> wrote:
----- Dominic Hargreaves <dom(a)earth.li> wrote:
| Great! Let us know how you get on or want to be linked in from the
| project homepage when you get going.
A link for New York would be excellent! It's installed in its final location, now I
only have to add content but that will come over time ... will add some graphics
(especially for the header) tonight ...
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