RE: [OpenGuides-London] Suggestion for London information - OpenGuides-London

24 Dec 2004

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From: openguides-london-bounces(a)openguides.org
[mailto:openguides-london-bounces@openguides.org]On Behalf Of peter(a)allmydates.com
Sent: 12 December 2004 20:32
To: openguides-london(a)openguides.org
Subject: [OpenGuides-London] Suggestion for London information

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  Here is a suggestion for informaion on London. I hope
you enjoy browsing it for 
 yourselves. Any feedaback about the map apppreciated. If you do decide to include it 
 within the openguides, please contact me and on our next update I'll add a reciprocal
link 
I have added a link to the page "Sites About London"
http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?Sites_About_London

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  The London Map (http://www.the-london-map.co.uk) 
 An interactive map of London with over 100 panoramic photographs of historic
 sites, parks and buildings. A virtual tour and sightseeing guide of many 
 locations in London.
 This is free to use and can be run embedded in any site, a great way to
 explore the city. 
Great! we like content that is free :).

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  Please take a look as see if you may like to either
use the Tour or link to
 it as a resource about London. See The London Map website for the html
 needed to use the tour, and examples of embedded tours. For further
 information or to discuss layout options please contact me. 
What would be really nice is to be able to hook into individual attractions.
Currently, the applet can navigate to attractions only via a search entered by the user.

What we want to be able to do is to pass in something like "Natural History
Museum"
as a parameter, and the applet loads the appropriate view.

Another function we would like to be able to do is to pass in X and Y coordinates,
either OS Grid or Lat/Long, and for the applet to show us the map with the arrow
in the right place.

That said, we have been looking at SVG, which has a number of facilities:

* Continuous zoom
* Ability to superimpose graphics by layering
* Clickable hyperlinks on the map

Ivor.