[Penguicon-Concom] Our locations: where is truly central?

[Ron Blanchett]

Similar but without all the exrta google crap and on our website.

On 10/24/07, Jer <jer.lance at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/24/07, Ron Blanchett <muteid10t at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A few years back I took the action of getting a google maps api key
> > from google for penguicon. I intended to use it to create resturant
> > maps on the website but could never get my hands on reliable
> > restaurant listings far enough in advance of the con to do so. I am
> > sure I could take an afternoon to hash together a google map of all of
> > the penguicon concom/staff. and while I am at it since we are at the
> > same hotel this year I might as well start work on a good google map
> > of all of the restaurants near the hotel.
>
> Similar to this?
> http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&q=restaurants&near=Troy,+MI&fb=1&view=map&cd=1
>
> >
> > Matt,
> >
> > If you can send me the addresses of all the concom/staff I will run
> > them through the google coordinate generator to get map coordinates to
> > make the map with. We can put said map in a password protected
> > directory so only concom/staff have access to it even though it wont
> > have address info on it.
> >
> > -Ron
> >
> > On 10/23/07, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I was inspired by a Google Maps mashup on the Ohio LinuxFest site. You
> > > can see the home locations of all the attendees who preregistered, but
> > > you can't see specific addresses and it doesn't identify them.
> > >
> > > http://www.ohiolinux.org/map.html
> > >
> > > The site code is open source, so this possibly could be reverse
> > > engineered to fit in our site. However, as cool as that would be, I
> > > have a different use in mind for Google Maps for the time being.
> > >
> > > What I'd like to create would be a Google Map showing anonymized
> > > locations of the concom and staff members, that we can use as
> > > reference to plan concom meeting locations with the Google Maps
> > > distance measurement tool. All I would need would be the address of
> > > each of you, which you can email to me privately off-list. If you want
> > > to list streets without the street number, that's OK too. Your
> > > identifying information would not be revealed publicly.
> > >
> > > -Matt
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