CanalPlan Blogs

Lots of little bits of work to be honest. Nothing earth shaking but its all little bits of tweaking. I’ve just added a plugin to allow intergration with Facebook, so when you post a blog entry on here its posted to your Facebook Page. I also extended the functionality of that plugin by adding a [...]

I thought that maybe it was time I updated on how the route importing from CanalPlan AC was going. The answer is slowly. Some of this is down to me changing my mind on how to do things and some is down to Nick’s work on the new data structures inside Canalplan. He now has [...]

Well the work goes on in the background quietly. The new version of Canalplan aC uses an SQLite database which means that it is much easier for me to get at Nick’s data than it was before when we used to have to do data exports and imports, now all I need to do is [...]

I’ve now got the code working which allows me to update the Location data whenever Nick does a rebuild of CanalPlan AC. At the moment he is adding a lot of of “hidden” places which are used to make map plotting a lot more accurate. He’s also updating the latitude and longitude of a lot [...]

Nick and I have worked out, we think, a pretty seamless way of jumping from the CanalPlan Blogs over to CanalPlan AC, grab the route data and pull it back into CanalPlan Blogs. I’m going to be working on the prototype code during this week and hope to have the basic “Get a Route and [...]

Well embedded Google Maps are now implemented. As I’m still waiting for Nick to get me the latest set of co-ordinates from CanalPlan the maps will only work for places between Cow Lane Bridge in Chester and the moorings above Penkridge Lock. Update: the list of canaplan places has now been updated and all places [...]