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. > > -- > Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 > http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > 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) + "'") > > -- > -russ nelson <sig at russnelson.com> http://russnelson.com > Crynwr sells support for free software | PGPok | It's a crime, not an act > 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315 268 1925 voice | of war. For my take, see: > Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | +1 315 268 9201 FAX | http://quaker.org/crime.html > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.tcwug.org > tcwug-list at tcwug.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list -- Thomas Eibner <http://thomas.eibner.dk/> DnsZone <http://dnszone.org/> mod_pointer <http://stderr.net/mod_pointer>