Have finally got round to (almost) sorting a issue that has plaguing this site for a while, namely a lack of header/footer for site pages. Primarily from laziness, but also due to the mixmash of server scripting languages used to power Nearby. Anyway the upshot is can now relatively easily edit the top/bottom menu areas. So to celebrate there is now far more links at the top of the page.
Have also taken the opportunity to publish a revised homepage I tried creating a while ago, I am not totally happy with it but think it possibly an improvement (or at least a declutter) of the old one, sadly no new features released tho!
(yes this is the first time in over a year an a half have done substantial development in areas other than the Google Dabbles or GeographTools pages)
by the way… great site… and huge amounts of info!
Martin
Hi Doctor
will u please help me in mar king a road map of Pakistan from google imageries. Is there any way that i can download and save hese imageries in sequence/ in order to further make overlay. or any way to makre overlay on google and save file in KLM/KMZ or GIS format for subsequent use for navigation system . i would be greatful. thanks
Do you can help me?
In http://www.nearby.org.uk/kml-headers.php
* kml-headers.kml (uses a RewriteRule to direct to the php file)
I don’t know how to re-direct. Do you can show me an example?
Thanks from Spain. (SEO/BirdLife)
For ISS (whcih your site appears to use), you might need to use something like
http://www.isapirewrite.com/docs/
(to be honest dont know if IIS has any redirect stuff builtin)
for Apache
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html
Hi Barry
Great co-ordinate converter!
I was wondering if its possible to submit a list of postcodes and get back a list of the corresponding OS grid references. I volunteer for a wildlife charity and we are trying to find a way to automate converting postcodes (of wildlife sightings) to grid references to input into our database.
Thanks for your help
Matt
@Matt
I have an API here:
http://www.nearby.org.uk/api/
you can also download a postcode -> lat/long conversion csv file. I can also supply one that has OS grid Refernces.
Hi there,
I have employed your dyanmic script loading example (number 4 I think)
var script = document.createElement("script");
script.setAttribute("src", "http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=2.75&key=&async=2&callback=" + callback);
script.setAttribute("type", "text/javascript");
document.documentElement.firstChild.appendChild(script);
For me the client is forced to reload the script each time, any idea why?
Is it something to do with dynamically adding script to the body
Just to clarify – I would have thought the browser would use a cached version of the maps file?
But it doesn’t (seems to be the case across all browsers too)
Thanks!
AFAIK that is deliberate. Google dont cache the ‘loader’ because it’s used for stats tracking etc. But its a small bit of code anyway so shouldnt really be an issue. The actual full API that it goes onto load should be cached tho.