Well there's geodjango - I haven't used it but I'd look at that if this was my task. I have used django, just not geodjango. bjb On Thu, Apr 03, 2014 at 08:03:43AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > off-topic but kind of time-critical request if anyone out there can > help -- i have a colleague that has a *pile* of geographical data in > XML form, over top of which he would like to drop a clickable map of > canada so that browsers can zoom in on any part of it, then click on > the icon representing any individual record to get a pop-up with the > info for that bit of data. > > i grabbed and cleaned up the data for him -- single file containing > 22,000 XML elements, total of 150M file representing specific > locations across canada, with each XML element containing a specific > latitude and longitude. so he took a small cross-section, and uploaded > it to (i think) google maps service, which seems to work fine, except > that service is *extremely* limited in that it takes i think he said > only 200 records. yuck. > > i'm sure this can't be hard, i've just never done it personally, but > i'm certainly qualified to mess with the XML and write some > stylesheets to extract portions of the data. > > if anyone has done this and can help, i'll be sitting down with him > again this afternoon, and i plan on showing up at oclug meeting at 6 > this evening if anyone who thinks they can help wants to chat. this > doesn't have to be charity, you're quite welcome to treat this as a > short contract and bill for your time if you can help. > > so, i'll see everyone at oclug this evening. > > rday > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ======================================================================== > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux ---end quoted text---