Preserved Topic: Planetary Location Map idea IV

Previous topic can be found here: http://www.ozoneasylum.com/Forum1/HTML/001595.html

Let's continue here...

'WebShaman','53.567','7.783','Rawn_Phoenix@web.de','http://www.nullinterrupt.de' That rocks!



[This message has been edited by WebShaman (edited 06-08-2001).]

Thank you mr.maX, and as a reminder, please submit your location in latitude, Longitude with decimal degrees rather than minutes. You can provide your email and web site as well. A complete submission would be:

'linear', 38.967, -94.667, 'linear@linear1.org', 'http://linear1.org/'

People have found this site useful in determining their location.

And the locator is here.

here you go linear.

'blue', 31.083, -81.717, 'rpace2003@yahoo.com'

this is beyond cool.



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blue

'JKMabry', 36, -97, 'jason@disk919.com', 'http://www.disk919.com'

where have I been, "IV, impressive miss there Jason"

Good job there linear, really nice.



Jason

woohoo! i'm on the map.
that's cool linear. of all the people on the map, i don't see your own name...

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blue

It's because krets lives about a mile from me. His asterisk is on top of mine.

I did a higher resolution version, but we're only about a pixel apart there. I may twiddle my coordinates to fix that. Might as well move myself to Tahiti....

heh. that's cool. you otta put yours on top of his.

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blue

'taxon', 26.333, 127.800, 'taxon@filter-line.net', 'http://www.filter-line.net'

jiblet, 44.967, -93.250, jiblet@visi.com, http://www.visi.com/~jiblet

Is there a more precise website to figure out your long/lat? Say, a zoomable map where you can actually get the measurements down to a city block.

-jiblet

'allgood & maa', 63.933 - 19.833 , 'allgood@team-2001.com', 'http:geda-online.com'



[This message has been edited by Allgood (edited 05-31-2001).]

Ah ha, I answered my own question. Go to yahoo maps and enter your address, then move the mouse over the center of the compass. The URL that appears contains 6 decimal places of lat/long.

My house is actually at 44.949800, -93.301800

-jiblet

Say allgood,
you posted coordinates in Iceland, but your From: tag says Sweden?

And for everyone with a - in their address, I'm working on a nowrap setting, but having initial difficulties. Stand by.

Oh man...that's what it gave me when I put in Vannas...geeez..hahahhahaa...let me look it up again...please don't post what I sent.
I looked again and that's what they gave for the lat and long in decimal degress and fractions of degrees. Someone check and see. I typed in Vannas...cause it the town in Sweden and got what they showed.

[1063793]


Vännäs (inhabited place)

Lat: 63 56 N Long: 019 50 E (represented in degrees minutes direction)
Lat: 63.933 Long: 19.833 (represented in decimal degress and fractions of degrees)




[This message has been edited by Allgood (edited 06-01-2001).]

That was my mistake. I introduced a negative sign by mistake.
My apologies, you're back where you belong now

Hey thanks...I can see it!

ok here we go..
'Rinswind', 52.950, 5.917, Rinswind.ii@zonnet.nl

lets's see.... Webshaman should live in my backyard!

~Rinswind ~

'Hebedee', 39.151800, -77.286300, 'hebedee@massassi.net'


[Holy cow, its Hebedee!]

[This message has been edited by Hebedee (edited 06-03-2001).]

'jakeB', 45.050, -92.800, 'jakejake55@hotmail.com', 'http://www.jakeb.f2s.com'
edit: i wasn't sure if you had mine or not, you have me on the list, but not my links (the coords. are for stillwater but duluth(what you had) is close enough)


[This message has been edited by JakeB (edited 06-03-2001).]

Ok, we're back up to date. Keep 'em coming.

hmmm, I don't seem to be on there..

-jiblet

You're just to the left of JakeB. Try the enhanced resolution mode.

The poster has demanded we remove all his contributions, less he takes legal action.
We have done so.
Now Tyberius Prime expects him to start complaining that we removed his 'free speech' since this message will replace all of his posts, past and future.
Don't follow his example - seek real life help first.

linear, this is a brilliant idea!

'drakkor',48.050,-122.167



-It never hurts to always be right-

'bitdamaged', 37.767 , -122.417,'miker@bitdamaged.com','http://www.bitdamaged.com'


Walking the Earth like Kane

OK, back up to date. We're at 48 inmates strong now. Tell everyone else to get over here and sign up.

Thanks to everyone who's said approving things. Credit for the original idea should go to Allewyn, I believe. (The original thread got sent to the bit bucket somehow.)

I'm really just responsible for the implementation. I wanted to learn some DHTML, and this seemed like a worthwhile project. It's the first DHTML I've ever written, actually. No external libraries or borrowed scripts were involved.

Holy shit... Taxon man.. you are in the middle of nowhere!! same with Silence!!

'sonicsnail' 57.65; -4.35 'www.sonicsnail.com'

hope that was right!

Excellent! 50 inmates! Break out the pale dry ginger ale!

Thanks for the tag, linear. :0 But you do deserve 95% of the credit for implementing my idea when I couldn't follow through. My household move is complete now and the new job has begun so I'm back around more. Glad to see it's working out for everyone. My dream becomes a reality! Very cool stuff linear.

Hey Rinswind 2 you in germany? Wittmund? Anybody else wonder why there are no entries from africa or russia? Anybody out there from india? What gives? Jeez there are over 1000 members, here. Where are all the posts? This idea mega-scans!!!

No Webshaman it's across the border:

The netherlands-->(province)Friesland--->(city)Heerenveen--> (village) oudehaske...

But on the map it looks like a little distance. Are you close to the border? I think it is an 1.5 hour drive or something. It should be the same to Maghja...

<excuses> Sorry for the local conversation but this is my neighbor in here...<end-excuses>



~Rinswind ~

Gad, I miss lots of cool thing going on in this crazy place. I just can't keep it up with you huys, lot of things need to be finished RIGHT NOW.

Anyway, can I still step in?

'Rick', 5.333, 117.167

mailto:rick2000@geeklife.com

Still working on the new site. Helples for this while.

Borneo?!? You're in, bro.

Thanks, bro..
Probably some of you here have never heard of an Island called Borneo. I'll tell you all about it later.

'u-neek',52.500,13.417','u-neek@spiritual-pixel.com','www.spiritual-pixel.com'

that should be berlin, germany

I finally got around to finding out my location, hope I'm not too late to be added to the map. This is a way cool idea . . .

'TheTrixter', 53.250, -1.417, 'steve@thetrixter.co.uk', 'http://www.thetrixter.co.uk'

Interesting factsabout my town:
"14th-cen. St. Mary's church has unique twisted spire of warped timber; the first town to be lighted by gas lamps"

Not too late at all.
Trixter, you get a cookie for having your entry in the exact correct format.
u-neek, sorry for the weird line wrapping. I'm still working on that.
Keep 'em coming. Tell your friends.

'shwa'Lat: 35.383 Long: 136.933 Inuyama ,Japan ,
'shaitan 37@hotmail.com'
nice job
thank you
shwa

Alright! A sudden inrush of inmates from Asia! Woo!
Only Africa and Antarctica are unrepresented.
Hmmmm, krets could use a new address....

OK ill get in on this to...

GraFFix----Lat: 41.950 Long: -87.817---GraFFix@pcc.net

Im still working on the interface to my new site..which will be entitled GraFopolis.. so no URL yet.

Thanks
GraF

Linear, might I suggest getting a higher contrast color for the asterisks? They blend quite well with the coastline color and anyone located in Indonesia should be almost impossible to see.

It's your God, they're your rules, YOU go to Hell.

'Shiiizzzam',32.383, -86.200, 'shiiizzzam@hotmail.com', 'http://www.tryptych.net/shi'


I think this is right. Thanks for all the work you did on this project

Aw shucks.

Edit: St. Seneca, there is now a contrast control just for you right above the Asylum logo in the South Pacific.

[This message has been edited by linear (edited 06-13-2001).]

ok
so if i wanna be on the map, i gotta tell you longitude and latitude...
clear so far, but,
i really don't know them...
know where i can find info on the net about that?


Arlechinu's...

this has gotten pretty good results for most folks.

doesn't work...
server not found error
any other way?

Arlechinu's...

Me too! Me too!

Wangenstein
El Cajon, CA
32:48:09N 116:57:39W

BTW, I found this info here.

Arlechinu, give me a city name, I'll happily look you up.
Wang, you're in. Since I'm too lazy to use a calculator I only took the conversion to decimal degrees to two places.

*Service with a smile*

Woo Hoo.... Can't wait to see me there.

Quarath, 40.54, -112.29, quarath@finlinson.com , www.finlinson.com/portfolio


[This message has been edited by Quarath (edited 06-14-2001).]

linear, here goes:
city: Timisoara ( Romania, Europe)
'arlechinu', 'arlechinu@hotmail.com', 'http://www.chez.com/arlechinu'
tell me if you got it

Arlechinu's...

National Geographic found you, Arlechinu. Looks like you're just up the road from mr.maX.

60 inmates mapped!

Taxon: Watch your step or you might fall of that Rock.

hey linear...
some idea: why not put the time zones in the background from the map?
o and when you click on some name you get an info box, can you make it so that the info box will disapear in some way when people are done with it?

just a suggestion


~Rinswind ~

Take a look at this time zone map and you'll see why I didn't (don't) want to tackle that. Like the open source guys say, "feel free to submit a patch."

The boxes disappear when you click the asterisk again. Kinda. You can have multiple boxes open (they're not modal), which I thought was maybe something that was a good feature. There's a problem with my implementation (I'm using a global state variable for the visibility and toggling it). I've been to busy basking in all the love to actually get off my butt and fix it. The fix is that the visibilty fo the popup DIV should be a property of the inmate object (not a global), I just haven't coded it up.

If I were looking for a giant time suck right now, I would code this up so that it called xearth on demand to generate the map, let the user pick the size and colors and crap, center the view on the user's time zone (passed in magically via JS, and I'd have xearth calculate the correct position of the sun, so you could see who's in the dark right now. My host won't let me have a shell, so that's off the table for right now.

The only further enhancement I'm interested in right now is to integrate this with the Asylum's user management to free me from having to add inmates manually. Inmates should be able to put their lat/long in the UBB profile and maintain it with that tool.

thanx linear,
i'm on the map now

btw, MrMax!
did you notice how close we are on the map?

maybe we should get together some time... and gimme some tuts on...
well... basicly everything


Arlechinu's...

He he... No problem, just come to Belgrade...

hehe,
why don't you come over here in Timisoara?
my Serbian isn't that good anyway...
Hvala lepo!

Arlechinu's...

'meathook', 40.217, -74.733 , 'grafxmonkey@home.com'


that's really neat! do you guys mind giving a brief description of how this project got started since we can't read the previous threads? it was a great idea.

Well, Arlechinu, I don't have a reason why to go to Timisoara... You're the one who wants to learn, right?

yup, youre'right
but this summer there will be e meeting here in Timisoara
let me explain:
i'm part of a student organisation called ELSA (The European Law Students' Association)
recently we (including me) founded a branch of the organisation here in Timisoara
and i'm the one in charge with making the web-site for ELSA Timisoara
and, also, the Romanian site for ELSA Romania is preety shity too,
so this summer al the guys who know anything about html and web design will get together to make a proper site for ELSA Romania
if you would have the time to come over here to give us a helping hand,
well, then we would have the place where you could stay, show you the twn around and all sorts of things like that
I know this sound a bit too complicated, and i realise that you ARE a busy person, but i had to take my chance and ask you all this stuff (since you are from Belgrade and since you ARE proficient in all this html mumbo-jumbo)


Arlechinu's...

PS: please tell me why this stupid sig of mine doesn't show up properly!?
could you spare 4 kb of your web space so that i can have a decent sig posted in here? molim te!

[This message has been edited by arlechinu (edited 06-16-2001).]

'Milkman','42.483','-83.133','milkman@milkmandigital.com','http://www.milkmandigital.com' -site not up yet, but soon I hope.



"It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity" - Albert Einstein

This is interesting...

'Human Shield','42.400','-71.150','wdalphin@rcn.com'

Heh, both you guys are right near other inmates--Milkman is near mbridge, HS, you appear to be right on top of Steve.

I had talked about doing a zoom tool for the east coast of the US, maybe it's time for that to happen.

mr.maX, if we close this thread, would it be possible to name the new one 'Planetary Locator V--sign up here' or something to that effect please?

poor linear. that's ok, we're used to it. i'm from the most densely populated state (jersey--woo hoo!).

Arlechinu...most likely your ISP doesn't allow image exports; many don't

Also, I hate to be a wet blanket but human shield and trixter; could you do something to optimize your sigs? they're well over 115K decoded. takes too long

well then. this seems to be a pretty good place to introduce myself.

'leavinghalfway', lat:40.008700, lng:-105.207700, alanpolacek@hotmail.com

I've looked around here a couple times before, found some good advice... unfortunately for me, I didn't follow some of it, cause I'm lazy ... oh well. I'm a PS fan myself, and I get the impression that this is the place to be... talk to you all periodicaly.

-LeavingHalfway
-workingonmakingasig-

Lat: 33 50 N Long: 035 50 E (represented in degrees minutes direction)
Lat: 33.833 Long: 35.833 (represented in decimal degress and fractions of degrees)

Hope i'm added soon!