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Re: VE itineraries

From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 21:36:50 +0200 (MET DST)
To: <anash~at~interlog.com>
Cc: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

Hi Andrew,

> One more suggestion. Since you are gathering the points along the way, how
> about storing the place names in at least text form somewhere.
> I think that would be really usefull to have, i.e. to know what cities
> Phileas travelled through on his trip.. and since you are already
> gathering the info, we'd get double bang for the buck.

I good suggestion. In fact, I have all the data stored in a separate file,
which is read from both the French and the english version of the script.
The data looks as follows:

cs
Cinq semaines en ballon
1863
[-6,40] [-8,38] [-4,32] [-4,28.5] [-1,33] Zanzibar -> L. Victoria
[2,33] [4,23] [11,14] [14,15] [17,14] [15,14] -> L. Chad
[13,10] [17,8] [16,0] [17,-3] [13,-6] [14,-11] -> Gouina

The program only picks out the data between []. It is easy to add a third
'coordinate' which is in fact the name of the location (if applicable). I
can then add an option to the script to display the names on the map as
well. Another option I'd like to add is the choice between a larger and a
smaller map. For P'tit-Bonhomme, I have a lot of locations, to tenths of
degrees accuracy, and this is more or less lost. On the other hand, long
stretches such as Singapore - Hong Kong would not look so nice on a large
scale map. I'll play around a bit, and see what looks good and what
doesn't.

Kindest regards,
Garmt.
Received on Fri 06 Jul 2001 - 22:37:19 IDT

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