Sunday 02 November 2008, 14:27
Back in June I posted here about the furthest point I could see from my living room window. Back then I had thought it was Eastern White Barrow, but I've just been a bit surprised when looking at Lustleigh Cleave through my binoculars. Just faintly visible beyond the valley is Cosdon Hill, 18.7 miles away near Okehampton. Pretty amazing, huh? I'll get a photo when the weather is better.
Saturday 01 November 2008, 23:28
A while ago I coded up an asp page that served up a random photo from the database. I'd been trying to do that for a while, but once I'd done it, I couldn't think of a proper use for it. It occurred to me tonight that some kind of "Guess Where This Was Taken" quiz might be of interest. See the "Quiz" link on the left.
Saturday 01 November 2008, 11:41
The post below does't make much sense now because I've subsequently altered the background image to include an outline map of the south west. The cyan grid lines and red pixels are added to the image dynamically by my PHP script. The alignment of the map is a little bit out, but I'll work on that over the weekend.
Thursday 30 October 2008, 23:15
I had a big breakthrough with the site tonight. For ages I've been trying to get a dynamically created image that shows a little red spot for each 1Km grid square that I've taken a photo in. Yesterday I stumbled across a reference to the PHP image functions, so I thought I'd give it try. I've not done anything in PHP before, but connecting to the database was simple enough. Displaying the individual grid squares as coloured pixels was simple enough in theory, but I ended up jumping through all sorts of hoops before I came up with this:
Superficially it's not very exciting at the moment, but imagine a map of the south west instead of the blank white background and all of a sudden it makes more sense. The red dots appear automatically as new photos are added.
Saturday 25 October 2008, 17:29
I made a change in the code of the "In this month" page today. As it extracts data from two different databases, it previously listed the results from the first database, then the results from the second, so sorting by date gave a rather disjointed result. My solution was to create a third disconnected recordset and insert the relevant fields from the two databases into that. It's easy then to sort the whole lot by date and mix the two recordsets together.
Tuesday 21 October 2008, 20:02
I found another few photos that match up, so I created another panorama out of them. They are actually all here already in the views section, and that will mostly be the case anyway, so I won't bother georeferencing the panoramas (for now). Anyway, they show up in various places around the site, but I put them all together on the Panoramas page. All three of them. I might be able to put some more together tonight though...
Tuesday 14 October 2008, 21:22
I went across the moor to Brent Tor on Sunday and took a load of photos from the summit, some of which I combined into this panoramic shot:
It made me think about taking some more of these, and how they will fit into the "On this Day..." and "In this Month..." pages. Not very well is the answer, so I've created a new page just for viewing these panoramic photos. It has some fancy Javascript that lets you resize the photo so you can see it better. Check it out by clicking on the photo above.
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