You can make copies of map images for personal, noncommercial use. (Please read our license agreement for details.) When you Save the map, MapBlast! gives you an HTML fragment. When you copy it to your website, it will display your map and provide a hotlink to the Vicinity MapBlast! server, so you and your users can jump into the map and look around.
A multiple-icon feature, which should be available in mid- to late summer, will add tremendous functionality to MapBlast!. For example, you'll send your guests a map with directions from their house to yours. Or get your bearings instantly when you move; use a MapBlast! map to show your house and the grocery, dry cleaner, gas station, school, soccer field, and everywhere you travel regularly. Keep checking our site for this and other new features we'll be introducing soon.
Here is a Vicinity map showing the location of Keplinger Hall, where many of our meetings are held.
The Tiger Mapping Service has been designed around an open architecture for maximum flexibility. The TMS Map Browser is not the only way of accessing TMS-generated maps; it is only an example application. By using the syntax below, anyone can request maps directly via a URL. This makes it possible to include TMS maps in your own documents, or even your own interactive mapping applications, because a "live" TMS map addressed using the URL described below can be used in exactly the same manner as a static GIF image (i.e., in a <IMG> element).
syntax:
Basically, a map can be requested directly from TMS by using the following URL: http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapgen?parameter¶meter&... where the parameters can be any or all of the following, separated by ampersands:
lon=number
the longitude, in decimal degrees, of the center of the map. Remember that longitudes for the Western Hemisphere are negative numbers. Longitudes for the contiguous U.S. range between about -67 and -125 degrees.
lat=number
the latitude, in decimal degrees, of the center of the map. Latitudes for the contiguous U.S. range between about 24 and 49 degrees.
wid=number
the desired width, in decimal degrees of longitude, of the coverage of the map. The actual coverage of the map may vary slightly from this number, due to fitting the requested coverage to the shape of the image.
ht=number
the desired height, in decimal degrees of latitude, of the coverage of the map. May turn out slightly different, for the reason above.
iwd=number
the image width, in pixels. If none is specified, the default is 512.
iht=number
the image height, in pixels. If none is specified, the default is 256.
legend=on
if included, the legend graphic is returned rather than the map.
mark=lon,lat,symbol,label;...
if included, places one or more markers on the map at the longitude and latitude given. The label, if included, is the text to be displayed adjacent to the marker (the label must by URL-encoded, i.e., replacing spaces with +). The symbol is the graphic symbol used to mark the location. The web page provides a list of each of the special symbols you can use.
Here is a Tiger map showing the location of Keplinger Hall, where many of our meetings are held.
While we are on the subject of English words, there is always
What you think that is trivial??? You have not seen anything yet. Check out:
What you think that is trivial??? You have not seen anything yet. Check out:
There are more plastic flamingos in America than real ones.
In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak.
In Texas, it's illegal to put graffiti on someone else's cow.
Melting an ice cube in your mouth burns about 2.3 calories.
The US state Maryland was named after Queen Henrietta Maria.
The only country to register zero births in 1983 was the 'Vatican City'.
In 1896, Britian and Zanzibar were at war for 38 minutes.
The northern most country claiming part of Antarctica is Norway.
The East Alligator River in Australia's Northern Territory, was misnamed. It contains crocodiles not alligators.
In a similar vein, we have:
The name of a prison which was on Clink Street in the Southwark area of London.
Where did the expression Minding Your Ps & Qs come from?
Ale was served at local taverns out of a "tankard" ... you were charged by the angle of your elbow ... half-way up... you drank a pint, all the way up... you drank a quart. Since the Quart cost so much more than the Pint, you were warned to "Mind your Ps & Qs"
An alternate explanation is that "Minding one's p's and q's" is a typesetter's admonition. When you handle individual character type slugs, you need to be careful of how you store and retrieve the p's and q's, because they look so much alike.
Last month we showed you some sites from Mars. This month let us take a look at another NASA site, intended primarilly for kids, but with a lot to interest the adults as well.
JonBenet Ramsey autopsy report
U.S. Customs's Cavity Search Criteria
And the court affidavit about Adam Quinn Pletcher, a 21-year-old Illinois loner, threatened the life of the Microsoft boss (and Gates's wife Melinda) in a bid to collect millions in a harebrained extortion scheme.
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