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Re: [OCLUG-Tech] [OT] anyone have experience with dropping a map over top of geographical XML?

  • Subject: Re: [OCLUG-Tech] [OT] anyone have experience with dropping a map over top of geographical XML?
  • From: "Brenda J. Butler" <bjb [ at ] sourcerer [ dot ] ca>
  • Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 09:11:37 -0400
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
> 
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