Articles of Feb 2014
Projects of Feb 2014 Postmortem of HTML5 Google Map / Google Earth project by Eric Wood, Director of Product Development at Avatar Systems, Frisco, TX. Abstract: Background: My background is Microsoft Visual Studio, but I needed to research a creation of a live "War Room" application using Google Map and/or Google Earth using HTML5 (HTML, Javascript, and CSS). The challenge was to map, in real-time, the locations of oil delivery trucks as they traveled from the dispatch office to the various load pickups from the wells, and the periodic drop offs at the delivery stations that would later flow into the pipeline. Technology: Google Map is a 2-D view of the world while Google Earth is a 3-D view of the world. Many of the functions are similar, but not identical. Requirements: 1) Start with Google Map or Google Earth. 2) Create static way-points with configurable icons and captions to represent the delivery stations and wells on the overall map. The ...