I had to do this a few months ago to my cemetery map as well. The
previous version was still working but the Terraserver map overlay was
no longer functioning so I switched to the USGS topographic overlay from
Microsoft. It meant updating to V3 as some of the functions were no
longer working. Besides the ability to show the placement of the
cemetery, I also provide the address and links to two different online
transcriptions when you choose a cemetery. The list of cemeteries is
imported from an XML file which is being generated by my XML Cemetery
application which I wrote for the Muskingum Genealogy Society but which
I am going to market to other genealogy and historical societies. I used
to maintain the XML file manually but it was so much easier to export it
from a maintained database.
Anyone is welcome to steal some of my code for displaying the different
overlays or to add the import and link functionality. I never added the
county border as Muskingum is not a very squared off county and I never
had the time to plot all the points. You can find my map here:
http://www.mccogs.org/XMLMap.html
We have launched my Cemetery application live in the Muskingum Genealogy
Library for use by those wishing to lookup the cemeteries that have been
transcribed so far. I am trying to get the society to release the
transcriptions eventually but they are going to release new cemetery
books and derive income for them so right now we are just releasing the
name indexes of each cemetery. My Cemetery map is now only including
links to cemetery transcriptions on my OHGenWeb site and also the link
to the Find-a-Grave site if one exists. The first link is imbedded in
the cemetery name when displayed on the screen. Clicking on it opens the
transcription at the bottom of the cemetery map. The second is included
in a little gravestone icon which opens in another window. I've been
trying to use another app that displays the LAT & LON when you press
the shift key but for now it displays the coordinates in the pop up for
each cemetery and is imported with the XML info.
I also can call this map from either the Genealogy society's web page or
the Muskingum OHGenWeb page and the home link will return to the calling
website. That way I only need to host it in one place but can call it
from either site.
Perhaps we can combine these maps and come up with a better hybrid. I
always found the USGS topographic map to be of use as it shows the
township and section info. It does not magnify as much but it does
retain the same position when switching between the different overlays.
If anyone knows of a society looking for an application to maintain
their cemetery transcriptions send them my way. I have yet to create a
sales presentation but it has been out of Beta for a few months and is
working fine. All we are looking for now is volunteers to help handle
the transcriptions. Our cemetery committee chairman is sorely overworked
and underpaid!
Denny Shirer - drdx(a)neo.rr.com - Canton, OH
Shirer Family Genealogy -
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysong
Muskingum County, OHGenWeb -
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohmuskin/
On 1/2/2014 8:19 PM, Dale Grimm wrote:
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [STATE-COORD] Cemetery maps
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 00:35:53 -0800
From: Joy Fisher <jfisher(a)sdgenweb.com>
Reply-To: state-coord(a)rootsweb.com
To: state-coord(a)rootsweb.com
SC's please forward to your CCs.
A few years back David Crosby and I wrote a utility to generate cemetery
maps using Google maps. The app was written using Google's v1 API.
Google is now up to v3 API. They promised they would maintain
compatibility with v1 API, but last week, they pulled the rug out from
under v1 and our maps no longer work.
David Crosby has written a fix to the Javascript file. If you have
our maps on your county web sites, David Crosby has rewritten the
javascript file so it is compatible with Google's v3 API. My Marion
County, Indiana cemetery map is here:
http://usgwarchives.net/in/marion/cemeterymap/countymap.html
To fix your map(s), here is what you need to do:
1. Go to
http://usgwarchives.net/in/marion/cemeterymap/
and download countymaptt.js (for PCs, right-click on the file name and
save it to your computer)
2 Edit your countymap.html
Find (your key may be different depending on where it is housed)
<script
src="http://maps.google.com/maps?file=api&v=1&key=ABQIAAAAh2...
type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="countymap.js"></script>
3. Replace with
<script
src="http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="countymaptt.js"></script>
4. Delete your old countymap.js
5. Upload countymaptt.js and your edited countymap.html
6. Check it. Mine required increasing the zoom. Edit your countymap.xml
file with a text editor (not a word processor). Zoom is in the second
line - increase the number by 3 or 4.
Notice that you no longer have to register for an API key!
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