inspectors.

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 10:33 pm

Just did a quick Google - where else !!

It seems that Googlemaps, along with most other systems, uses GPX, which for the non-technical is a way of representing waypoint data in a way that is portable between lots of different devices, a bit like HTML

so each waypoint will have a description like this
<waypoint>
<name>Bill</name>
<latitude>51.00.00</latitude>
</waypoint>

If "the office" have a copy of the addresses in spreadsheet format, I should be able to write a wee program to populate Rod's Google Map in
<famous last words>a couple of hours </famous last words>

Without a spready it should still be fairly easy albeit somewhat more hit and miss

David Hall · Post by **David Hall** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:07 am

countzero wrote:
Google Maps LAA Inspectors test

It would make the task of entering all the postcodes easier if there was plain text list of inspectors available, maybe the office has one?

Rob

Rob - Invite the "office" as a Collaborator, they can simply fill in the postcodes and the job's a good 'un

Sandy Hutton · Post by **Sandy Hutton** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 12:09 am

Step up Ken Craigie please..

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 10:23 am

I have created a tagged list that can easily be converted into GPX format,

I should be able to deliver the GPX file tonight

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 10:55 am

I have added all the inspector addresses to http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie ... 2&z=6&om=1

There are 355 entries, the other have postcodes that are not in the only online list that I could find. Later I will go through and update those by land.

Unfortunately the Post Office charge £200 for the comprehensive postcode list. Free information is available for postal areas - for example AL40, this is what I have used.

The lack of an easy to access postcode lookup means his map is only accurate to about 2km - probably good enough for the original purpose.

jamie_duff · Post by **jamie_duff** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 11:05 am

That's great Pete!

My dad's location is bang on, Stewart Baxter is my uncle and his is about right and Andrew Grieve lives roughly where the pip is but it would appear close enough!

Well done

Edit: Just a thought - this now needs promoting so that the members can use it! Admin, how about a Sticky thread somewhere on the forum announcing the link to the Google Maps facility - and perhaps it's worthy of a mention on the Inspectors section of the main website and in the mag?

Steve Brown · Post by **Steve Brown** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 12:40 pm

That is so cool - really well done Pete - what a lot of hidden talent & skilled resource we have in LAA.

Redwing · Post by **Redwing** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:07 pm

Nice job, this really deserves a link from the laa website engineering pages.

Only slight gotcha is that it runs to two pages so you could miss that you do not have all the inspectors on the map at a quick glance.

There is one inspector I know that doesnt show up, with an IV postcode, poss one of the post codes you had a problem with?

Sandy Hutton · Post by **Sandy Hutton** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 5:58 pm

Ok, so how does it open to show the Inspectors Approvals as that was one of Welshmans points?

Nice job otherwise Pete

Sandy Hutton · Post by **Sandy Hutton** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:01 pm

Jamie, Stewart is your Uncle? I served my apprenticeship with him at Scone back in the 70's. I could tell ye some stories.

It's just clicked with me... THAT Robbie Duff!! say hello from me.

jamie_duff · Post by **jamie_duff** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:40 pm

Sandy Hutton wrote:Jamie, Stewart is your Uncle? I served my apprenticeship with him at Scone back in the 70's. I could tell ye some stories.

It's just clicked with me... THAT Robbie Duff!! say hello from me.

Yep that's my uncle and dad respectively. Stewart is married to my dad's sister

Stewart isn't always the most forthcoming with his stories - what have you got on him?

I did my first solo at Scone in July 1998 in one of Tayside Aviation's Cessna 152s on a RAF Flying Scholarship. Stewart happened to be there and said "Good landing" when I taxied in. He obviously hadn't actually seen it

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 6:59 pm

A couple of things,

Unfortunately it looks like you can only have 200 or so points of interest on a single map, hence it splitting into 2 pages alphabetically

I will create 2 separate maps approx north & south of the 52nd parallel.

There is no way I am gonna fanny around linking back into the LAA web site, too much work for too little benefit, Doing this took approx 5 hours, linking back to the PFA web site cannot easily be done by computing methods, it would prob take me 10-15 hours, 80/20 rule applies.

Sandy Hutton · Post by **Sandy Hutton** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:30 pm

Good try Pete but it still doesn't cover all the bases.. Anyone else got any good ideas how to go about solving the problem of getting Inspectors and approvals, contact details etc onto a UK mapping system?

Mike Mold · Post by **Mike Mold** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:34 pm

Nice job, Pete. Good example of this place working in everyone's best interest.

Pete · Post by **Pete** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:56 pm

I have split the list into 2,

North of 51.9
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl=en& ... 5&z=6&om=0

South of 52 degs
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?hl=en& ... 2&z=7&om=0

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