[HamWAN PSDR] HamWAN use cases [was: hamwan.net DDNS]

[Dean Gibson AE7Q]

On 2014-04-22 13:27, Tom Hayward wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Dean Gibson AE7Q <hamwan at ae7q.com> wrote:
>> Is the data in a "client bubble" dynamic in the sense of refreshing every time a client location is clicked, or is a page refresh needed for a data update?
> No, it's all loaded when the page is first loaded. One of the enhancements for the map I'd like is background updates, so you don't have to refresh the whole page to update the map data.
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>> If the latter, I'm curious as to why we are using client-side (eg, JavaScript) rather than server-side (eg, php) processing.  I use Google Maps on a couple of my web pages, and it works well with php.
> I'm not sure exactly what you're suggesting. Javascript places lat/lon points on Google's slippy map interface. This allows you to pan the map and zoom, and javascript will fetch the tiles for the new area, and move the Point to the appropriate new pixel coordinate for the  lat/lon.
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> The only way to do something like this server side would be renderingan image, then rendering a new image every time they want to pan or zoom a new area. This would not be a good experience.
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> Tom

Here's what I do with Google Earth and php (because I'm moving domains, 
you will get a security exception for the time being, which can safely 
ignore): 
https://www.airmen.aero/logbook/FlightMap.php?LOGBOOK=A0672484&QUAL=

Scroll around and click, and see if it doesn't provide a similar 
capability.  I see Google has changed the fonts;  I think I need to 
increase the size of the bubble ...