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Please, just write down your <a href="/WikiName">WikiName</a>. If you wish to introduce yourself, you can use your <a href="/HomePage">HomePage</a>. <span class="anchor" id="line-11"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-12"></span><p class="line867"> <h2 id="Members">Members</h2> <span class="anchor" id="line-13"></span><p class="line867"><span class="anchor" id="line-14"></span><ul><li><p class="line891"><a href="/RalfGesellensetter">RalfGesellensetter</a> <span class="anchor" id="line-15"></span></li><li>... <span class="anchor" id="line-16"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-17"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-18"></span></li></ul><p class="line867"><span class="anchor" id="line-19"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-20"></span><p class="line874">Xplanet is used to create new maps whenever new schools pop up. This implies <span class="anchor" id="line-21"></span>running some perl scripts on maintainer that extract coordinates from a Mysql database and exports them to a text file. An impression of our results can be seen at: <span class="anchor" id="line-22"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-23"></span><p class="line867"><a class="http" href="http://www.skolelinux.no/slschools/cartography.html">http://www.skolelinux.no/slschools/cartography.html</a> <span class="anchor" id="line-24"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-25"></span><p class="line874">Futher tasks could include immediate presentation of Mysql contents, e.g. using PHP+gd, or supporting further geofile formats, like KML. <span class="anchor" id="line-26"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-27"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-28"></span><p class="line867"> <h2 id="Current_Tasks">Current Tasks</h2> <span class="anchor" id="line-29"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-30"></span><p class="line867"> <h2 id="Finished_Tasks">Finished Tasks</h2> <span class="anchor" id="line-31"></span><p class="line867"><span class="anchor" id="line-32"></span><ul><li><p class="line862">Migrating from xplanet 0.9 to 1.x <img alt="(./)" height="16" src="/htdocs/debwiki/img/checkmark.png" title="(./)" width="16" /> <span class="anchor" id="line-33"></span><ul><li><p class="line862">old style: <tt> xplanet -night_image void -shade 100 -blend -radius 350 -latitude 62.2 -longitude 18.3 -markers -markerfile xplanet-markers.txt -image earthmap_hires.jpg -output skolelinux-scandinavia.png</tt> <span class="anchor" id="line-34"></span></li><li><p class="line862">new style: <tt> xplanet -radius 350 -latitude 62.2 -longitude 18.3 -config xplanet.conf -num_times 1 -output skolelinux-scandinavia.png</tt> <span class="anchor" id="line-35"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-36"></span><ul><li style="list-style-type:none">This call uses a local config file xplanet.conf that states the location of placemarks and the usage of a locally stored hires map that is also used for the dark side of the globe to avoid any darkness on our map: <span class="anchor" id="line-37"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-38"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-39"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-40"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-41"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-42"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-43"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-44"></span><pre><span class="anchor" id="line-1-1"></span>[earth] <span class="anchor" id="line-2-1"></span>"Earth" <span class="anchor" id="line-3-1"></span>shade=80 <span class="anchor" id="line-4-1"></span>map=earthmap_hires.jpg <span class="anchor" id="line-5-1"></span>night_map=earthmap_hires.jpg <span class="anchor" id="line-6-1"></span>marker_file=xplanet-markers.txt</pre><span class="anchor" id="line-45"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-46"></span><p class="line891"><img alt="http://user.skolelinux.no/~ralfg/slschools/map/test.jpg" class="external_image" src="http://user.skolelinux.no/~ralfg/slschools/map/test.jpg" title="http://user.skolelinux.no/~ralfg/slschools/map/test.jpg" /> <span class="anchor" id="line-47"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-48"></span>Further options can be found in /usr/share/xplanet/config/default, test in local window like this: <span class="anchor" id="line-49"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-50"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-51"></span><pre><span class="anchor" id="line-1-2"></span>xplanet -radius 300 -latitude 62.2 -longitude 18.3 -config xplanet.conf \ <span class="anchor" id="line-2-2"></span> -timewarp 7200 -window -verbosity 4 -label -wait 1 </pre><span class="anchor" id="line-52"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-53"></span>The wait option could be a way to re-render the map once a day using a background process. <span class="anchor" id="line-54"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-55"></span></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="gap"><p class="line862">Export coordinates to <a class="http" href="http://earth.google.com/kml/kml_tut.html">KML file</a> <img alt="(./)" height="16" src="/htdocs/debwiki/img/checkmark.png" title="(./)" width="16" /> <span class="anchor" id="line-56"></span></li><li><p class="line862">Maintain/update school coordinates <img alt="(./)" height="16" src="/htdocs/debwiki/img/checkmark.png" title="(./)" width="16" /> <span class="anchor" id="line-57"></span></li><li><p class="line862">(Re-)Draw maps <img alt="(./)" height="16" src="/htdocs/debwiki/img/checkmark.png" title="(./)" width="16" /> <span class="anchor" id="line-58"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-59"></span></li></ul><p class="line867"> <h2 id="Milestones">Milestones</h2> <span class="anchor" id="line-60"></span><p class="line867"><span class="anchor" id="line-61"></span><ul><li>Committed revision of make_map.pl that works with xplanet 1.x from Sarge. In the same turn, we switch from png to jpeg format, saving more than 50 percent of space. <span class="anchor" id="line-62"></span><ul><li><p class="line891"><a href="/ToDo"><strong class="highlight">ToDo</strong></a>: Make sure that all references to png files get adapted; remove png from svn. <img alt="(./)" height="16" src="/htdocs/debwiki/img/checkmark.png" title="(./)" width="16" /> <span class="anchor" id="line-63"></span><ul><li>Created hard links from png to jpg because there were some Norwegian pages linking to the png images! <span class="anchor" id="line-64"></span></li></ul></li></ul></li><li><p class="line862">Created <a class="http" href="http://skolelinux.no/slschools/worldmap.php?lang=en">worldmap.php</a> and <a class="http" href="http://skolelinux.no/slschools/euromap.php?lang=en">euromap.php</a>! -- <a href="/RalfGesellensetter">RalfGesellensetter</a> 2007-09-04 18:59:54 <span class="anchor" id="line-65"></span></li><li>Created charts and cartogram as php code, so most recent contents of the database is used <span class="anchor" id="line-66"></span></li><li>Created interactive openlayers.php, based on openstreetmap data. <span class="anchor" id="line-67"></span><span class="anchor" id="line-68"></span></li></ul><p class="line867"> <h2 id="Related">Related</h2> <span class="anchor" id="line-69"></span><ul><li>[:DebianEdu/Teams/SlSchools] <span class="anchor" id="line-70"></span></li></ul><p class="line867"> <h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2> <span class="anchor" id="line-71"></span><ul><li>Geosphere: The project didn't develop much further since 2004. It's under BSD license, by the way. Rendering surface textures seems out of question. <span class="anchor" id="line-72"></span></li></ul><p class="line867"><hr /><p class="line874"> <span class="anchor" id="line-73"></span><a href="/CategoryTeams">CategoryTeams</a> <span class="anchor" id="line-74"></span><span class="anchor" id="bottom"></span></div><div id="pagebottom"></div> </div> <div id="footer"> <p id="pageinfo" class="info" lang="en" dir="ltr">DebianEdu/Teams/Cartography (<a class="nbinfo" href="/DebianEdu/Teams/Cartography?action=info" rel="nofollow">last modified 2009-12-10 13:34:44</a>)</p> <ul id="credits"> <li>Debian <a href="https://www.debian.org/legal/privacy">privacy policy</a>, Wiki <a href="/Teams/DebianWiki">team</a>, <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/wiki.debian.org">bugs</a> and <a href="https://salsa.debian.org/debian/wiki.debian.org">config</a>.</li><li>Powered by <a href="https://moinmo.in/" title="This site uses the MoinMoin Wiki software.">MoinMoin</a> and <a href="https://moinmo.in/Python" title="MoinMoin is written in Python.">Python</a>, with hosting provided by <a href="https://www.man-da.de/">Metropolitan Area Network Darmstadt</a>.</li> </ul> </div> </body> </html>