I've been in doubt whether to ask this here, but I don't know where else to go and I think any answers can be useful to other developers...
What I want to do in the community site that I am building is to have a map outline graphic on the header of the user profile. So if the user indicates he is from Brazil, there will an small outline graphic of Brazil next to his avatar. All I want is the graphic, I do not need an interactive map.
For this to work, I figure I could link up the country code to a collection of graphics, each graphic outlining one country. Problem is, is there a resource anywhere with such a repository I can use or buy? I have found some collections that cover part of the world, but I need it to be complete and up-to-date.
Have a look at these ..
http://geography.about.com/library/blank/blxindex.htm
http://www.visguy.com/2007/04/23/map-of-world/
http://www.dafont.com/geobats.font
http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/free-vector-world-maps-collection/
and don't forget to check the CIA factbook maps
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/refmaps.html
There's also the CIA World DataBank II, which probably has more detail than you need.
You might also like the GADM-Website: http://gadm.org/
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I am new to orchard and am trying to find the best way to create a list of houses (name, address, pictures, prices and a few others). The houses are to be in two sections/ categories (Buy and Rent). These two options will appear on the menu. Then on clicking buy you get all houses flagged with that option and likewise for rent. I would also then like these displayed as images and brief description then on clicking more take you to a page with lots more details as mentioned above on the house. Then also like to have featured houses and latest houses buy/ rent widgets in the sidebar or similar.
There seems to be lots of ways to do this ie content types, projection, taxonomies, lists etc. But what is the best way in the case please. I dont want to go one way and then find i cant do it i would rather get some help here now and do it right.
Things i have read and watched to help:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDqY14mDG_Y&feature=youtu.be
http://docs.orchardproject.net/Documentation/Creating-lists
All help appreciated
You could create a content type called House with all the properties you described as fields. Then create projections (filtered to only show Houses) to display your Buy and Rent listings.
I want to make voip applicaton in j2me.I surfed about mjsip2ME. I want to use mjsip with my application. Can any one suggest me for how to do this ?
There's a tutorial, but it is kinda incomplete at the moment, as it does not contain source code, and some sections are labeled "TO DO". However, it contains the list of methodw, with descriptions and a quick, general help.
There's also some info on the web not on the official site, but I hope you're not afraid of chinese :/
I'm building an iPhone app that, among other things, allows the user to take and store photographs associated with locations. I am currently using the ALAssetLibrary to allow the photographs to be stored in Photos and be accessible outside the app (on a computer for instance via the built-in mechanisms). There is not a lot of technical content out there for working with the ALAssetLibrary but from what there is I have managed to cobble together a working version of this. I have had to resort to storing a dictionary of photo URLS in my app and manually detecting if the photo still exists when displaying lists of them because there does not seem to be a way to add custom metadata to an ALAsset.
What I would really like to do is add two custom metadata fields to each asset to provide it with a title and a custom id value that I can use to filter on when enumerating the asset library.
As a secondary task, I'd like the user to be able to update the title metadata.
Can it be done? At this point, I really don't think it can because the API really doesn't seem to provide the necessary methods to get/set custom metadata. I'm hoping against all odds that there is some other aspect to the AssetLibrary framework that I have not yet discovered.
At a minimum, if someone can authoritatively say "NO" then at least others might find this breadcrumb on their own trail of hope and change tack more quickly!
And, having 0 reputation I can't tag it with AssetLibrary :( wow, this day is just going downhill. FML
I've been looking over the documentation and I dont think it is possible to tack on additional fields to the ALAsset object, well you can create your own object or extend theirs but that wont help you when your pulling back assets because you'll need to init yours and populate it then.
Look I know this falls short of a really good answer but I had to try.
The ALAsset class documentation describes a property - customMetadata. This is documented to be an NSDictionary of whatever custom tags you want. Currently, however, it is not implemented in the class (I've raised a bug on Apple's developer site to bring the issue up).
I want to create visuals along the lines of CNN's "red-state, blue-state" shadings of the states in the U.S. for my project. I'm planning to do something fancier than just shading the state's shape in a color. Are there open source libraries of state shapes/polygons (or - if not open source - others) that I can import into Word, Excel, etc. that I can use to show complicated graphs based on states?
I have Map Point, but haven't been able to figure out how to shade the states in a complex way.
you could try google charts, it looks like http://www.woot.com is doing something similar to what you need
Here is a good example using google maps... I've used code like that before.. perhaps from this exact example.
http://econym.org.uk/gmap/example_states2.htm
EDIT: you might want to consider converting the states.xml into JSON... it'll be smaller (136k of XML right now!) and should load faster in most browsers.
There might be a couple parts to the question you are asking, but to address the first part "Are there open source libraries of state shapes/polygons...", here's a resource to check out:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_maps_of_the_United_States
It's a list of various SVG(scalable vector graphics) files which can be imported into a number of applications. Basically a giant xml representation of lines and endpoints. This can be directly converted to XAML, if you're into a more programmatic way of charting(ie, C# w/ Silverlight).
However, to address the second part regarding MS Office, Visio can import SVG files for manipulation as well. I'm unsure what type of graphs you were looking for, but I hope this can assist in some small way on your path to awesomeness ;)
I have a list of URLs and am trying to collect their "descriptions." By description I mean what comes up, for example, if you Googled the link. For example, http://stackoverflow.com">Google: http://stackoverflow.com shows the description as
A language-independent collaboratively
edited question and answer site for
programmers. Questions and answers
displayed by user votes and tags.
This the data I'm trying to accumulate for the URLs I have.
I tried parsing the URL's meta-descriptions, however most of them are lacking a meta-description (yet Google and other search engines manage to get a description somehow).
Any ideas? Should I just "google" each link and scrape the data? I have a feeling Google wouldn't like this...
Thanks guys.
Different search engines have different algorithms to get the description out of the page if/when they are lacking the description meta tag. Some ignore the tag even it it's there.
If you want the description Google has, the most accurate way to get it would be to scrape it. Otherwise, you could write your own or look around on the web for code that does it.
These are called snippets.
Google use proprietary (and possibly patented) methods to garner this information, so there is no simple answer.
As you suggest, they will use meta-description information if it is there. (How to set the meta-information to help Google.)
They will also honour requests from the page authors to NOT include snippets. (How to prevent Google from displaying snippets) You should probably respect this too (as well as robots.txt, of course.)
You may have some luck with existing auto-summary packages, such as OTS.
You may want to check AboutUs.org (i.e. http://www.aboutus.org/StackOverflow.com).
But, there's little chance that the site will have an aboutus page and not have a meta description.
Some info that might explain how google does this:
Webmasters/Site owners Help
Adding a URL to google
I am not familiar with Google APIs, but perhaps there is an official way to get such information.
Interesting. some sources are better than others.
For "audiotuts.com" google has a worse description than AboutUs.com.
Google
Nov 18th in General by Joel Falconer ·
1. Recently, an AUDIOTUTS reader asked me about creative process. While this
is a topic that can’t be made into a
...
AboutUs.com:
AUDIOTUTS is a blog/tutorial site for
musicians, producers and audio
junkies! It is the sister site of the
popular PSDTUTS, VECTORTUTS and
NETTUTS.
I hate problems like these... they should be trivial but they aren't!
If you can assume English content, you can first look for Meta Description, and if that doesn't work, you can look for the first two or three sentence-like word sequences.
A product I worked on looked for the first P or DIV that contained more than one sequence of > n "words" delimited by periods. It would use the two or three sentence-like sequences, up to x total words, as a summary paragraph. It wasn't 100% accurate, but good enough for the average case. The number of words was adjusted a few times to eliminate things like navigation elements.