{"id":35639,"date":"2018-01-23T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=35639"},"modified":"2018-01-22T17:19:13","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T07:19:13","slug":"interesting-places-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/interesting-places-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Places Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/interesting_earth_air_based_map_places.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Interesting Places Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/interesting_earth_air_based_map_places.jpg\" title=\"Interesting Places Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interesting Places Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We had the good fortune to come across the great (coffee table) book <i>The Earth from the Air<\/i> by Yann Arthus-Bertrand (ISBN: 9780500544846) recently, showing really interesting airborne views of the Earth, the world over.  Simply stunning photography!<\/p>\n<p>Also great with this book was its supply of geographical positions for these interesting Earth places.<\/p>\n<p>So we decided to base a new web application, today, harnessing &#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=_blank href='https:\/\/developers.google.com\/chart\/interactive\/docs\/index' title='Google Chart Tools provide a perfect way to visualize data on your website. From simple line charts to complex hierarchical tree maps, the chart galley provides a large number of well-designed chart types. Populating your data is easy using the provided client- and server-side tools.'>Google Charts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=_blank title='Google Chart Map Chart' href='http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=4832'>Map Chart<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; and in particular with the latter the use of its &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\nvar options = {<br \/>\n        zoomLevel: 19<br \/>\n}<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; zooming capabilities, that &#8220;19&#8221; being the maximal zoom required for really accurate <a target=_blank title='Google Maps' href='http:\/\/maps.google.com'>Google Maps<\/a> place scenarios, as distinct from our use of a zoomLevel:11 for your more general zooming in requirements matching the geographical values supplied by <i>The Earth from the Air<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Why not &#8220;zoom&#8221; around yourself with this <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/interesting_earth_air_based_map_places.html\" title=\"Click picture\">live run<\/a> link with underlying HTML and Javascript and CSS as per <a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/HTMLCSS\/interesting_earth_air_based_map_places.html_GETME\">interesting_earth_air_based_map_places.html<\/a> that is downloadable as per usual.<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d35639' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d35639\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/google-charts\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d35639' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had the good fortune to come across the great (coffee table) book The Earth from the Air by Yann Arthus-Bertrand (ISBN: 9780500544846) recently, showing really interesting airborne views of the Earth, the world over. 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