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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Nice work Brian </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Andy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Brian Prangle [mailto:bprangle@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> 23 November 2012 12:51<br><b>To:</b> talk-gb-westmidlands<br><b>Subject:</b> [Talk-gb-westmidlands] west midlands listed buildings map<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hi everyone<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Well it's nearly here! It's very much a work in progress with a lot still to do - it's really a proof of concept at this stage <a href="https://tiles.mapbox.com/brianboru/map/map-ag576a5p" target="_blank">https://tiles.mapbox.com/brianboru/map/map-ag576a5p</a>. So don't expect it to be perfect - it will be some time before it's a public site.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I've built this in TileMill which has a very steep learning curve and unless you're a coder only has pretty basic functionality.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>If you hover over icons around the Town Hall you should see images appearing. Also if you click on the icons you can get a wikipedia link and read more about the building. Very few icons currently have links or images<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The data is from English Heritage under an Open Licence and I have the file for the whole country. Some of the data is a bit suspect e.g position of Moor St Station (not my nice marker but the other one) and Council House is missing bit generally it's spot on<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The data is in an ugly UPPER CASE font and the descriptions could do with improving<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Things to do<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Get more data for the West of the region<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Populate the database with more photos and wikipedia links ( this will be a long slow process)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Replace the boring markers with something along the lines of the ones I've temporarily added for a few landmarks ( I'm currently stuck on this one - so anyone who knows mustache template coding - this is what TileMill uses - could possibly help me?)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Get the markers color coded according to Grade ( I will probably need help on this too!)<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Add layers for blue plaques and artworks<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Add Listed Parks and Gardens<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Any comments and offers of help appreciated<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Regards<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Brian<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=1 width="100%" noshade style='color:#A0A0A0' align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>No virus found in this message.<br>Checked by AVG - <a href="http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</a><br>Version: 2013.0.2793 / Virus Database: 2629/5912 - Release Date: 11/22/12<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>