[aprssig] New mapping interface

[Scott Miller]

I fired up Microsoft Fiddler (debugging HTTP proxy) and started playing with
it.  The search results are returned as XML - the format is very clear, with
an icon link, data fields, position, and so on.  It remains to be seen how
tough it'd be to subvert it.  I'm  hoping Google provides some sort of API
to make this easy.

Scott
N1VG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Dimse" <steve at dimse.com>
To: "TAPR APRS Mailing List" <aprssig at lists.tapr.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: [aprssig] New mapping interface


On 2/8/05 at 9:01 AM Scott Miller <scott at opentrac.org> sent:

>Google's got a LOT of bandwidth.  Once this app hits the mainstream, I
doubt
>all the APRS users in the world would make a significant impact.  And
>Google's proven themselves to be less evil than most of their
competitors...
>I hope they could be shown that supporting amateur radio would be a good
>thing.
>
Yea, bandwidth, and even computing power are not an issue for Google. As Jim
did
I also added a link on findU's page to pull this up.

The Google page runs javascript, the source code is run together into a
couple
lines, probably to discourage reverse engineering. You can see as a page
loads
that it uses relatively small tiles, presumably the javascript grabs the
tiles
it needs, I'd be very surprised if the links aren't encoded, but you never
know
with Google. Encoded ot not, this provides some interesting possibilities.

There are no terms of service I can find, so it seems like at least for now
anything is fair game.

First use would be to write a geo generator that grabs the tiles for a map
and
generates an image file/geo file pair for use by Xastir, WinAPRS, findU, and
others.

Second and more interesting would be to modify the source code to plot APRS
position directly on top of the page, giving access to the rather cool
scrolling
action in the javascript.

Any javascript experts out there?

Steve K4HG

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