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Status of Travel Mapping
Purgatory On Wheels:
Those of us not involved in creating the new CHM/Travel Mapping site would love to hear updates regarding the status of the new site. What are you currently working on, and when do you expect to have various components complete?
Thanks to all of you who have volunteered to resurrect CHM.
english si:
I'm working at bringing files (mostly in Europe) up-to-date. As I have (half an hour ago) finished my last assignment for the summer, I could, in theory, get it done by a couple of weeks time. However, I doubt that urgency is needed, so I'll probably take my time with the remaining few countries (Spain, Germany, Poland, Sweden) and spend time finishing French N roads and other such future systems (and perhaps borders, though they are really boring).
Also (as a reminder to me) US6 in CO needs tweaking after the AASHTO decision.
Jim:
Quick status update:
I have python code that can now read in all of the highway data and put it into a database. .list data next. It's the first database of any significance that I've designed, so I'm sure I've made some bad decisions. I hope to learn more about how to do it right as I continue.
My first visible evidence of progress is a very basic highway browser that reads its data from that database. All it can do is take a highway's internal "root" name, read the points from the database, and put those points in a table and onto a map. For example, to see I-88 in New York:
http://www.teresco.org/~terescoj/travelmapping/hbtest/?r=ny.i088
Replace the "ny.i088" with your favorite plotted route in the US or Canada (Europe's not in the DB yet) to see others.
Anyone with some HTML/JS/PHP skills is welcome to take this basic model and come up with something more pretty and functional. There are several ways this could be managed - if interested let me know and we can figure out how you can get the file to populate your own database, or get you some read access to a database I can put somewhere for your development.
Duke87:
--- Quote from: Jim on June 09, 2015, 11:51:59 PM ---My first visible evidence of progress is a very basic highway browser that reads its data from that database. All it can do is take a highway's internal "root" name, read the points from the database, and put those points in a table and onto a map. For example, to see I-88 in New York:
http://www.teresco.org/~terescoj/travelmapping/hbtest/?r=ny.i088
--- End quote ---
It might be basic visually but damned if it isn't fully functional. I could map my travels using this no problem.
I actually like the little green d-pad dots more than the google pushpin balloons the old site had. Less visually cluttersome and they get in the way of each other a lot less since they don't stick out from the line as much.
english si:
--- Quote from: Duke87 on June 10, 2015, 12:06:38 AM ---It might be basic visually but damned if it isn't fully functional. I could map my travels using this no problem.
--- End quote ---
Extra functionality is intersecting routes and alt labels. The former is very useful, the latter somewhat useful. Oh, and links back to the browser.
Great job!
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