Re: Geographical map updating.

----- Original Message -----
From: jalal <the_jalal(at)yahoo.com>
To: Alan Control <alan(at)i-bird.com>; <hwg-techniques(at)mail.hwg.org>
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 7:07 AM
Subject: Re: Geographical map updating.


> One word:
>
> PHP

Now I have a question myself.  PHP might work fine for pulling the maps out
of a database and plopping it in the page, but I understood the original
question differently.  Will PHP actually *generate* the maps from a blank
image, some city names and location labels?  (For comparison, like
NetObjects, Publisher, and several others generate button graphics with a
built-in image editor.)

Take a look at
http://www.i-bird.com/Location/PolUnitUSFL.htm
for example.

I understood that Alan wants to get away from creating all these maps "by
hand" and prefers something a little more like mapblast.com.  That seems
like it would take some *serious* GPS on the backend, hence the $$$$ quotes.

While we all know that PHP will pull those completed maps out, my question
is whether or not it will merge all the separate bits of data to create an
image.  Can anybody comment on that?

Okay, I admit that it boggles my mind ;)


> On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 12:55:22 -0700, Alan Control wrote:
>
> >Folks:
> >
> >A site I am developing contains a large number of maps (over 800 by now)
> >see example at:
> >
> >i-bird.com/USDirectory.htm
> >
> >These maps were originally developed using an Excel program which
> >generated each map individually. (Many long hours!) The maps have only a
> >limited number of colors possible--up to 5. What I am looking for is a
> >server-side program that will take database information and produce the
> >colored map, and make it into a gif image that will be inserted into a
> >document.
> >
> >The database I am using uses traditonal SQL commands. Is there a
> >software program that costs less that $25,000 ( my latest and best
> >quote) that can solve this problem?
> >
> >Alan
> >
> >--
> >Alan Control
> >i-bird.com
> >Cortland, New York
> >
>

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