Ambassadors map is now online.

[Mohd Syafarul Razi]

Hi there,

I just think why don't we put the exact location instead of country name on
Fedora ambassadors map. My current latitude/longitude is set to Petaling
Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.

[Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Mohd Syafarul
Razi<msrazi(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>  Hi there,
>
>  I just think why don't we put the exact location instead of country name on
>  Fedora ambassadors map. My current latitude/longitude is set to Petaling
>  Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. 
i believe the system _is_ using ur latitude and longitude data

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[Mathieu Bridon]

>  I just think why don't we put the exact location instead of
> country name on
>  Fedora ambassadors map. My current latitude/longitude is set to Petaling
>  Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. 
Because mapping the coordinates to a location is hard, unless you have
a gigantic table listing each city in the world and the geographic
area it covers, so that you can find in which geographic area the
marker is.

The country is actually extracted from another field in your FAS
account, so a simple solution would be to add a new field to specify
the city, another field for the region, another field for......

Or, you can zoom in the map and look at the city name :)


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Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)

[Amit Pundir]

How about using Yahoo!'s API... please have a look
http://developer.yahoo..com/maps/rest/V1/geocode.html

If one can locate his location on the yahoo map latitude and longitude values can be
directly copied from the browsers URL. find your location double click on the spot and
have your lat and long values ready in the URL..

 Amit Pundir
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From: Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) <bochecha(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;
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Sent: Monday, 13 July, 2009 8:00:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Ambassadors] Ambassadors map is now online.

>  I just think why don't we put the exact location instead of
> country name on
>  Fedora ambassadors map. My current latitude/longitude is set to Petaling
>  Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. 
Because mapping the coordinates to a location is hard, unless you have
a gigantic table listing each city in the world and the geographic
area it covers, so that you can find in which geographic area the
marker is.

The country is actually extracted from another field in your FAS
account, so a simple solution would be to add a new field to specify
the city, another field for the region, another field for......

Or, you can zoom in the map and look at the city name :)


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[Christoph Wickert]

Am Dienstag, den 14.07.2009, 00:12 +0530 schrieb Amit Pundir:
>  How about using Yahoo!'s API... please have a look
>  http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/rest/V1/geocode.html 
The Yahoo! API is not open, see
http://info.yahoo.com/guidelines/us/yahoo/ydn/ydn-3955.html

If we do something like this, we need to do it with FOSS, so OSM is the
way to go.

Regards,
Christoph

[Mathieu Bridon]

> > How about using Yahoo!'s API... please have a look
> > http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/rest/V1/geocode.html
>
>  The Yahoo! API is not open, see
>  http://info.yahoo.com/guidelines/us/yahoo/ydn/ydn-3955.html
>
>  If we do something like this, we need to do it with FOSS, so OSM is the
>  way to go. 
Clicking on the map to set your location could be so easier... [1]

Any help would be greatly appreciated ;)


[1] https://fedorahosted.org/shomyu


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Mathieu Bridon (bochecha)

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Montag, den 13.07.2009, 21:10 +0200 schrieb Mathieu Bridon
(bochecha):
>  >> How about using Yahoo!'s API... please have a look
>  >> http://developer.yahoo.com/maps/rest/V1/geocode.html
>  >
>  > The Yahoo! API is not open, see
>  > http://info.yahoo.com/guidelines/us/yahoo/ydn/ydn-3955.html
>  >
>  > If we do something like this, we need to do it with FOSS, so OSM is the
>  > way to go.
>  
>  Clicking on the map to set your location could be so easier... [1] 
Of course. I have to correct my previous statement: Shomyu is the way to
go and it relies on OSM for the geographical data.

>  Any help would be greatly appreciated ;) 
I really would like to help but I already have so many projects that I'd
like to support... but if I find spare time I'll dedicate it to Shomyu.

Regards,
Christoph