OT (?): Bookmarking GPS coords

[jonathandlynch at gmail.com]

Rather than travel physically, could you just move in the map, and program it to record your click locations in a map?

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> On Apr 10, 2017, at 7:41 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks - lots of useful info there.
> 
> The big issue in this approach is (as you say)
>>  I would
>> think it would be relatively simple to define a procedure (less simple
>> to have the kids actually follow it) where the kids send you an email
> In my case, I have a large number of addresses to define (say, 500) and a small number of volunteers (say 2 or 3) - so I'm not able to distribute the initial data gathering very well. The level of manual effort involved in copy/paste URL, type name, type address would be OK for each Scout doing one of them - but asking my volunteers to do a couple of hundred each is, um, challenging :-)
> 
> Also, I do have the addresses already collected - so I am hoping to import that into Google maps (or other mapping system)  ready for some human interaction to define where each on is - and ideally to then require only one click (or equivalent) to capture enough info for me to process it.
> 
> A kmz file might be usable - but I'd need to generate it on the fly, because I want to only show one (or at most a handful) of addresses - there's already a lot of local concern about putting anything like this on the internet.
> 
> Currently I have system (LC + revBrowser) working to define locations, though I'd like to make it a bit smarter.
> And a (very) initial display system - see https://www.kilmelford.com/igniter.lc/basic/findaddress
>   (good examples to try for the search string are "glen", or "cuil" or "cuil cottage" or ....
> 
> This might work for me because one of my volunteers has access to a high-definition map of part of the area, with house names already shown;  but for the other part I will probably need to do the GPS app for phone/tablet and have them walk/cycle around.
> 
> So - off to experiment with kmz files ... thanks !!
> -- Alex.
> 
> 
>> On 11/04/2017 00:12, Kay C Lan via use-livecode wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 10:58 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> I'm looking for any help or suggestions for existing apps that can do
>>> (something like) what I want to do - could even be a clever way to use a
>>> feature I've not found in Google maps, or pple maps, or ...
>>> 
>> Hi Alex, I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to achieve but here
>> is a scenario that might address some of your needs:
>> 
>> You have a local Scout group and you want all the children in the
>> group to know where all the other kids and group leaders live so you
>> want to produce a map with place markers that can be easily shared.
>> 
>> So I'd get all the kids to go home, get onto Google Maps and find
>> their own home using Street View. Once they've found their home, they
>> take a copy of the URL and have them email it to you. The entire URL
>> will look like this:
>> 
>> https://www.google.com.au/maps/@52.7810059,-1.7254772,3a,75y,38.54h,87.5t,358.22r/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sNB14D3D9SvOQvL8Efe9h8w!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1
>> 
>> The format is pretty straight forward to decipher, the two numbers
>> directly after the @ is the latitude and longitude. It would be easy
>> to write an LC utility to strip the address to just the Lat and Long.
>> 
>> Take this Lat and Long and paste it into Google Earth. Note I started
>> out in "Maps" because of Street View - it is much easier to find your
>> own home in Maps vs Earth. Obviously pasting the Lat Long into Earth
>> will take you to exactly the same spot. In Earth you can then place
>> multiple 'Placemarkers' and give them appropriate names and
>> descriptions - that are like pop up tooltips. I'd name the
>> Placemarkers after the kid's name, and for the description enter their
>> proper address.
>> 
>> Once you've entered all the Placemarker details, you can scale your
>> view to cover just the area that includes all your Placemarkers. You
>> can then save this as a .kmz file and send it out to everyone. When
>> anyone opens the file they'll see exactly what you saw when you saved
>> it; but it doesn't preclude them from zooming in and out or panning
>> around.
>> 
>> Google Earth is available on all the popular desktop and mobile OSes
>> and is free.
>> 
>> Lastly, .kmz files are basically an xml file as defined by Google.
>> Again the format is pretty simple to decipher - or you could look it
>> up on the internet and have it precisely described to you. I would
>> think it would be relatively simple to define a procedure (less simple
>> to have the kids actually follow it) where the kids send you an email
>> with the body is in a format like:
>> 
>> URL: qerpoqueoruqweouqeoruqoru
>> Your fullname: oiu lh mnbmb
>> Your Full address: 765 hohjjkl jhgjgh ouyiuy UYT 432 FHG
>> 
>> and then have LC read the email, extract the relevant data and then
>> automatically add the Placemarker data into the .kmz file. One problem
>> I see is that someone might join who lives outside the original zoomed
>> level of your custom kmz map so with each update to the kmz file you
>> would have to actually open it and look at it in Google Earth and
>> determine that the zoom level is correct to ensure that everyone is
>> still within the bounds of display; before saving the file and sending
>> it out as an update to everyone.
>> 
>> Also, Google Earth allows you to create your own 'Tracks' that can be
>> saved and shared. So for instance, you could save a Scout hiking trip
>> and share it and so parents would know where to drop kids off and pick
>> them up, and theoretically the kids can't get too lost on the route in
>> between;-)
>> 
>> HTH
>> 
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