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The weblogs that I read that have usable geo-data1. If you are on the map and don’t want to be, let me know and I will take you off. Or if you want to go on, I can do that too.
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IAN,
it seems all of the a sudden that all blogs cover the google map! I’ve already read many blogs about this!
but US and UK are the only places precisely mapped. the others aren’t. i hope they could have mapped beijing soon! so i can know the way round when i’m in town this december!
Enjoy your time!
hi! you have one of the most advanced blogs i’ve ever seen, and i’m not surprised since you helped me on the wordpress forum on how to get my gallery up. thanks so much for that!! cool map too.
The API for the mapping was only made available this week, so it’s a new thing. Also with the popularity of moblogging I doubt it will be long ’till there is location-aware plugin available (providing there is a way to extract GPS data into an xml file).
Thanks for the compliment, though I think ‘well hacked’ is a better description
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Hi Ian,
What do you need to be added to the map?
And I want one of these - how do you go about adding one to a site? Is it just for WP?
Shadow
Shadow,
I just need your latitude and longitude, I can sort it from that. As for adding to a site, it is definitely not just a WP thing.
You need to get your own (folder specific) API and then your best bet is to copy the source code of my htm and xml files to get you started.
For including into a page/ post I used an iframe:
<iframe src="http://path/to/map.htm" width="395px" height="320px"><ilayer src="http://path/to/map.htm">
</ilayer>
</iframe>
The API discussion pages are worth a browse too, as there are a lot of people sharing ideas and code there at the moment.
Hope that helps.
Hi this is very cool indeed. My I be added ?
Lat (WGS84) N53:33:58 ( 53.566221 )
Long (WGS84) W1:11:59 ( -1.199680 )
hope this is the right info you need?
cheers
Ian, fast work including me on the map, cheers for that. Now I would like to add this to my blog as an extra page. Don’t suppose there is a written walk through for installing on a WP blog is there ?
Hope I got you in the right place. There is no real step-by-step. See my previous comment really - copy/save my map.htm and data.xml files, upload them to your system somewhere, replace my API key with yours and use the iFrame trick to show it on your blog. The structure of the xml file will show how to use it for your own data points.
Comment again or e-mail me if you need any more help and I will do my best. (I’ve added you to my links too since it is a map of blogs I read
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