Cool! The Java thing looks really neat!

On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 12:55:36AM -0500, natecars at real-time.com wrote:
> Interesting!
> 
> This may be what we need.
> 
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> Date: Wed,  3 Oct 2001 00:54:47 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Russell Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com>
> To: Bob Hagemann <bob.hagemann at divine.com>
> Cc: "wireless at lists.bawug.org" <wireless at lists.bawug.org>
> Subject: Re: [BAWUG] WiGLE / JiGLE
> 
> Bob Hagemann writes:
>  > A friend and I have been working on a website / Java client for doing
>  > wireless station collection and mapping. We call it WiGLE for Wireless
>  > Geographic Logging Engine. The Java client has been dubbed JiGLE. We are
>  > currently focusing on the Chicago area, but the online portion is
>  > location agnostic and the client can have new maps and coordinates
>  > dropped in easily.
>  >
>  >    For a screen shot of the current client, which can read as well as add
>  > to the online database, check out:
>  >
>  > http://wigle.net/gpsopen/gps/GPSDB/map/
>  >
>  > Up until now we've been using mapquest maps, but those carry copyright
>  > and other restrictions. We wondered what options there are for free,
>  > unrestricted maps (at the street level) that we can dump into the client.
> 
> Here's the program I use with pygps.  It hands you a map, and a world
> file.  You have to give it the terraserver parameters from the URL.
> With a little bit of work, you could have it search for a latitude and
> longitude.
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> 
> import os, re, sys
> 
> s = 12
> t = 2
> w = 2
> x = 688
> y = 5151
> z = 17
> 
> if len(sys.argv) == 4:
>     x = sys.argv [1]
>     y = sys.argv [2]
>     z = sys.argv [3]
> if len(sys.argv) == 7:
>     x = sys.argv [1]
>     y = sys.argv [2]
>     z = sys.argv [3]
>     s = sys.argv [4]
>     t = sys.argv [5]
>     w = sys.argv [6]
> 
> place = "X=%s&Y=%s&Z=%s&S=%s&T=%s&W=%s" % (x,y,z,s,t,w)
> entry = os.popen("wget -O - 'http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/USGSDownload.asp?" + place + "'", "r")
> 
> while 1:
>     eline = entry.readline()
>     if not eline: break
>     found = re.search(r'"(USGSWorldFile.asp.*?)"', eline)
>     if found:
> 	    os.system("wget -O '" + place + "w' 'http://terraserver.homeadvisor.msn.com/" + found.group(1) + "'")
>     found = re.search(r'"(http://.*?/download.ashx.*?)"', eline)
>     if found:
> 	    os.system("wget -O '" + place + "i' '" + found.group(1) + "'")
> 
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