Cartisan coordinates

[supert8ch]

I have been searching and not finding a simple soliution that I can understand. I thougth about starting with html rather then php or java, I am very new to any code and figured this was a perfect project to start with. I have this small project and need to figure how to make it work. I have Cartisan coords and need to put them on a map. I have a background that I will use with x and y repeating to cove. I want to be able to put tags and labels on the points. Any help on the best and cleanest setup to make this work woudl be greatful.

[davej]

Are you saying you need to build a map dynamically? If so you should look at the Canvas element. You will need to use Javascript.

 

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_canvas.asp

 

http://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp

[newseed]

If you are trying to demonstrate Cartisan calculations I don't think you can do this with just pure html. PHP and JavaScript is the only way I know of unless there is a plugin tool you can use. The only other one I know of is that done using Flash which I found at mathsisfun.com site

[supert8ch]

I am looking at starting small and just a basic map. It will have -2500x and +2500y so that I can map out locations from coordinates that I have in excel. I will add some mouse over features to show some details of the plotted spot. Like I said want to start small and learn my way way with something that I need to make, I learn better this way. Thank you for the sugestions, I will look into it and see what it has.

 

I am not sure about your statement of dynamically? I do not understand what that means.

Edited July 16, 2014 by supert8ch

[Ingolme]

You would need to know a lot of Javascript to build something like that. Alternatively, use CSS to manually position elements in particular places.

 

This isn't "starting small" for a web development project. Perhaps for a C++ / Java / programming project it would be small.

[johncc]

I have been searching and not finding a simple soliution that I can understand. I thougth about starting with html rather then php or java, I am very new to any code and figured this was a perfect project to start with. I have this small project and need to figure how to make it work. I have Cartisan coords and need to put them on a map. I have a background that I will use with x and y repeating to cove. I want to be able to put tags and labels on the points. Any help on the best and cleanest setup to make this work woudl be greatful.

Can you describe your project in a bit more detail?

[supert8ch]

I have corrdinates that are x and y. examples:

Unit 1, x-3502, y530, brown, note field

Unit 77, x455, y-202, green, note field

so on and so foruth.

 

I want to place them on a page and will add some things later like a find option to go to the coords or search a unit number. But right now want to get the coordinates setup. I might end up putting them into a MySQL database, they are in excel at this time, as it will be a very large list over time and that will be alot for a html or any other kind of page. There will be a few other things i would like to add but will work on that later. Right now my excel file is getting very big with setting up the coordniates map and the data. My poor computer is having a hard time loading it.

[johncc]

I would suggest that you use your map as a background and generate coloured dots for your points 'on the fly' by adding elements to the DOM. You could access the note data using a title popup. You would need to use PHP and an SQL database if operating on a server or you could use Javascript and an CSV textfile if it is on a local computer. Happy to provide more details if this sounds like what you want.