CanalPlan Blogs

Working with Nick I’m now glad to able to demonstrate Canal Maps. Not only can you now link to the CanalPlan AC page for a specific canal but you can now embed maps of canal sections into your posts. So lets say you want to include a map for the Leeds and Liverpool Canal (Main [...]

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 [...]

A quick update on the route maps and things. I’ve now completed the code for embedding basic route maps so that each day of a blogged route can have a map which shows the route travelled that day. So why not check out the Blogged Routes page? As Nick and I are still bouncing data [...]

Google have just released code that allows people to embed Googlemaps into a regular blog entry. I’m currently working on some code that will basically allow you to insert a googlemap for a canalplan location into your blog. Basically you’ll do the normal canalplan search and then rather than inserting a CanalPlan tag it will [...]

Using an existing plugin to handle tagging and a couple of other chunks of code I’ve built a site wide tagging system and a tag cloud. I’ve also tweaked the search so you can search on tags as well as post contents. Work has also progressed on the GoogleMaps side of things – I’ve now [...]