Re: creating a map of the united states

["dawngage2001" <dawngage1964@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ralph,
I am very new to web developing and yes I did look at the source code 
on the page but have not downloaded gimp because I did not know if it 
would work. Can you tell me where I need to go on the gimp website to 
get this to  download for this to work for me?

Thanks
sunrise   



--- In gimpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "ralph mckelvy" <glengarrymac@...> 
wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if this is what you want, but have you looked at the
> source code? of the page and how they handle assigning location to 
the
> map so the program recognizes when the cursor is over Washington and
> not Montana etc. I saved the image you referenced and opened it in
> GIMP. I enlarged the to 200% so that I would have reasonable 
accuracy
> on hitting the corners with the cursor. I checked The image
> coordinates for the corners of ND were the same as the coordinates
> used to describe ND in the source code. ie.
> coords="171,29,220,31,225,64,169,61"
> You probably get this, but for the watching world, each point
> referenced is described by the number of pixels to the right of the
> origin (upper left corner in this case), 171 and by the number of
> pixels down, 29. This is the north west corner of ND the next pair 
of
> numbers are the coordinates of the North east corner and so forth.
> Because WA and OR and other states have irregular boundaries the
> number of pairs of coordinates varies.
> Now I only needed Gimp to verify that  Gimp and the browser used the
> same origin (upper left corner) and the same units (pixels). If you
> wanted to enlarge this map for your page or if you wanted to use a
> different map then you  would need Gimp to locate each point on the
> state's border needed to represent it with reasonable accuracy.
> Gimp gives a direct read out of the cursor location. Look in the 
lower
> left corner of the Image Window. Also check the units menu it 
defaults
> to pixels (px). In the view menu of the Image window make sure "dot
> for dot" is checked this will ensure wysiwig.  Gimp help seems to
> indicate that the positioning from image to image is only identical 
at
> 100 %. I get identical readings at 200%. The preferences provide for
> aligning the pixel count in Gimp with the screen size. The help
> discusses this. Mine defaulted to the same count.
> Hope this makes sense and addresses you need.
> 
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:00 PM, dawngage2001 <dawngage1964@...> 
wrote:
> > This is the address of the webpage that has the map I like could
> > someone look at that site and tell me if gimp would work for this.
> >
> > http://www.infoplease.com/states.html
> >
> > Thanks
> > sunrise
> >
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Ralph
>