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HTML\/PHP Timezone Feed Google Chart Map Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Yesterday we started on our journey into the “when” and “where” of our new timezone web application when we presented HTML\/PHP Timezone Feed Primer Tutorial<\/a> as shown below. Today we delve into more sources of data to augment yesterday’s GoMashup<\/a> (thanks) source. And “why” is that? Well, we want to further contextualize the “where” of the web application by offering to show a representative map of a locality within the relevant Timezone on a map of the Earth. To do this, we can use the Google Charts<\/a> Map Chart<\/a>, as we’ve discussed earlier. That is the “what” (we use) about the scenario, but “how” about the “how”? We need a data source that links Timezone names with geographical latitude and longitude information, which the GoMashup data does not contain. Luckily, the wonderful Wikipedia came to the rescue with this really really useful link<\/a>, so yet again, thanks Wikipedia!<\/p>\n

The use of maps can help contextualize where we live and in any given Timezone of interest, you will find an east\/west commonality for Timezone places, with possibly a lot of variation in north\/south to places that have a common Timezone. As you probably learnt in school geography, this can mean a vast difference in climate from the cold polar regions (of really high or really low latitudes) to the warm and humid equatorial regions near the equator at zero degrees latitude.<\/p>\n

But people of the same Timezone, may, for instance, share …<\/p>\n