[Ldsoss] Ldsoss Digest, Vol 37, Issue 8

[Ed Ashton]

Kevin thanks for bringing back your map program.  Very useful when we want to know more or less where our members live.  The yahoo geocoding api gets pretty close for most of our members.  Thanks again.  

Has anybody else done any mapping of their units?  I would be interested in what has worked with other units and what has not.  Our stake recently went through a reorganization and one of the members had ESRI's ArcView so we used that to geocode everyone then try different boundary proposals.  It worked great but the time it takes to make a nice map at a given scale can take quite a long time.  Kevin's application is great for seeing where people live, it is not exact as it only uses yahoo for geocoding but it is fast.  I would be interested to hear from the rest of you what how you all have mapped out your membership.

Ed

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>    1. Kevin's ward mapping applet is back & personal (Charles Boling)
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> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:50:54 -0800
> From: Charles Boling <charles+ldsoss at boling.us>
> Subject: [Ldsoss] Kevin's ward mapping applet is back & personal
> To: LDS Open Source Software <ldsoss at lists.ldsoss.org>
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> Kevin Ball transformed his now-defunct hosted ward mapping service into a 
> little .vbs file that you can download and run on your PC against a .csv 
> file exported from your ward web site.
> 
> It generates an html file in the root of your C: drive that holds the 
> mapping app & data.  Although the address data passes through a foreign web 
> service, your membership info isn't being held on an outside server -- it 
> remains on your local hard drive.  Thus we now have the "personal" edition.
> 
> Basic requirements are Windows Scripting Host to create the file, and Flash 
> Player & a connection to Yahoo to use it.  If you're reading this and are 
> running Windows 2000 or newer, you're probably good to go.
> 
> The script can be downloaded directly from
> <http://wardmap.theballfamily.org/WardMap.vbs>
> 
> More info about the app:
> <http://wardmap.theballfamily.org/>
> 
> If you don't like the WSH requirement, it looks like it would be pretty 
> easy to rewrite it in the scripting language of your choice.  If you don't 
> like the Flash requirement, rewrite it to use another mapping API. :-)

 
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