[Geowanking] Shapefile to Google maps converter

[Martin Tomko]

Bryce,
do you plan to release your shp2googlemaps code? Is it available for 
mere mortals somewhere? That would be great!
Thank you very much.
Martin

Bryce Nesbitt (mailing list account) wrote:
> Russell Nelson wrote:
> 
>> Bryce Nesbitt (mailing list account) writes:
>> >     http://www.masscentralrailtrail.org/mcrt_rail_trail_map.html
>>
>> I had some trouble with Firefox for Linux.  If I zoom in to the
>> portion near Belchertown, it starts to complain that the script is
>> running slowly, and offers to abort the script for me.  It seems to
>> make no progress even if I cancel the abortion.
>>  
>>
> I've seen the same thing, and got a report of the same on 
> Firefox/Solaris.  Mabye Google Maps is just not up to a 2160 element 
> PolyLine that covers half a state?
> 
> See http://www.obviously.com/temp/googlemap4.html for even worse abuse 
> of GoogleMaps limits.
> 
>> Is this the line of the trail or the line of the railroad?  A section
>> of the trail off the east end of the paged portion near Amherst is
>> ridable with a mountain bike, but it's obviously been encroached upon
>> by private property owners.  Other portions are used as a road, and
>> another portion near Belchertown is thoroughly grown over.
>>
> It is the line of the trail, where the trail is developed.
> Else it is the line of the old railroad.
> Check the MassGIS layer for which is which.
> 
> Note: The Belchertown land trust just bought much of the right-of-way in 
> Belchertown.
> 
>             -Bryce Nesbitt
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