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(...) mmm, good idea. I wonder if I could get it to just fill in the form fields based on the viewport. If you zoom in (Command-click on Mac, Ctrl-click on Windows) or pan (Option-drag on Mac, Shift-drag on Windows), then the viewport changes. I bet (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) A public domain ESRI .e00 file from GRID or NOAA, I forget which. (...) ya (...) I realize how popular ArcView is, but I avoided it because I need things to run on Linux and FreeBSD (and also because of licensing issues, since it's a (...) (22 years ago, 28-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Pretty neat for an alpha version 8?) Any chance you could set it up to fill in the lat/long values by clicking a point on the map? ROSCO (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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"Adrian Drake" <tremor@apk.net> skrev i meddelandet news:HCEwID.1EFv@lugnet.com... (...) It worked for me on Win2000 (Administrator rights). -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: (2 URLs) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd, A few questions and comments. - What is your source for the country polygons? - You are coding all the map generation? You have your own code writing the SVG? I have been recently working with a program called SVGMapper. Well, it's an (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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BTW, here's a quick comparison showing file sizes when the same view is rendered for different intended viewing sizes: (URL) reason they’re not all the same file size, even though it’s all vector graphics, is because at smaller intended viewing (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Me too. Although that approach certainly has its downsides in cases like NELUG, which officially covers a 5-state area but 99% of the activity occurs within 20 miles of Boston. I think the arbitrary geometry approach really works great in (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) oh absolutely, yes! In fact, in SVG, you can link not only to other webpages but also to other SVG files that load into the current viewport. Sorry I forgot to list this last night on my to-do list. It's a must-have. --Todd (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) A few things are contributing to this... First, the big demo page is loading eight maps simultaneously, each of which consist of thousands of points within hundreds of polygons. It would be a lot faster if the demo page were broken into (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Nifty stuff. One thing I liked about the old approach was that the "areas of influence" of clubs could be arbitrary geometry. There is no circle center and diameter that will include all of certain club's areas of influence while not (...) (22 years ago, 27-Mar-03, to lugnet.admin.general)
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