Sexy Map Application

Overview

I'm [http://www.personaltelco.net/static/node/ playing with map making] to visually explain PersonalTelco's coverage around PortlandOregon. I'm mostly interested in making the map look sexy. I'm using the [http://www.trans.ci.portland.or.us/bicycles/bikemap.pdf City of Portland Office of Transportation Bike Map] as a starting point. I grabbed a few tools on my AppleMacintosh that are simple to play with by hand and then started automating parts. I'm using AppleScript because it's been a while and I am curious where it's at these days. --DarrinEden

To Do

• ScaleCaching -> Vector

• ThreeDimension -> Tiles

• LinkFunction -> ReProActive

The code for a zoomed in map is incomplete and fubared at best. I'm still fixing the zoom map by hand.

Code

property dotRadius : 10 property resultWidth : 450

global myList

global cropNWx global cropNWy global cropSEx global cropSEy

global scaleX global scaleY

global myPage

global pdxSpotList global pdxMapOriginal

tell application "Finder" to set homePath to (home as string)

set pdxSpotList to (homePath & "Desktop:spots.xls") set pdxMapOriginal to (homePath & "Desktop:bikemap.pdf" as alias)

on main()

• loadList() -- Build the entire map setEntireMap() drawMap() linkMap() -- Build the downtown map setDowntownMap() drawMap() linkMap()

end main

-- Prepare data for building entire map of Portland on setEntireMap()

• set cropNWx to 19 set cropNWy to 248 set cropSEx to 1124 set cropSEy to 1247 set scaleX to 1105 set scaleY to 999 set myPage to 1

end setEntireMap

-- Prepare data for building downtown Portland on setDowntownMap()

• set cropNWx to 43 set cropNWy to 31 set cropSEx to 615 set cropSEy to 552 set scaleX to 1105 set scaleY to 999 set myPage to 2 repeat with z in myList
  • set item 2 of z to (item 2 of z) - 294 set item 3 of z to (item 3 of z) - 355
  end repeat

end setDowntownMap

-- Use Photoshop to draw on a PDF version of the biking routes of Portland on drawMap()

• tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS"
  • activate open pdxMapOriginal as PDF with options {class:PDF open options, page:myPage} set maxX to 0 set maxY to 0 set minX to 1500 set minY to 1500 repeat with z in myList
    • set spotName to item 1 of z set x to item 2 of z set y to item 3 of z if x is greater than maxX then set maxX to (x + dotRadius) if y is greater than maxY then set maxY to (y + dotRadius) if minX is greater than x then set minX to (x - dotRadius) if minY is greater than y then set minY to (y - dotRadius) make new art layer at beginning of current document ¬
      • with properties {name:spotName, blend mode:normal}
      set selShape to "Elps" -- "Rctn" set selTop to y - dotRadius set selLeft to x - dotRadius set selBottom to y + dotRadius set selRight to x + dotRadius set antiAlias to true set featherAmt to 0.0 do javascript ("function makeEllipseSelection(selShape, selTop, selLeft, selBottom, selRight, antiAlias, featherAmt) {

    var selectionChannel = new ActionReference();

    • selectionChannel.putProperty( charIDToTypeID( \"Chnl\" ), charIDToTypeID( \"fsel\" ) );

    var makeSelection = new ActionDescriptor();

    • makeSelection.putReference( charIDToTypeID( \"null\" ), selectionChannel );

    var selectionParameters = new ActionDescriptor();

    • selectionParameters.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID( \"Top \" ), charIDToTypeID( \"#Pxl\" ), selTop ); selectionParameters.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID( \"Left\" ), charIDToTypeID( \"#Pxl\" ), selLeft ); selectionParameters.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID( \"Btom\" ), charIDToTypeID( \"#Pxl\" ), selBottom ); selectionParameters.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID( \"Rght\" ), charIDToTypeID( \"#Pxl\" ), selRight ); makeSelection.putObject( charIDToTypeID( \"T \" ), charIDToTypeID( selShape ), selectionParameters ); makeSelection.putUnitDouble( charIDToTypeID( \"Fthr\" ), charIDToTypeID( \"#Pxl\" ), featherAmt ); makeSelection.putBoolean( charIDToTypeID( \"AntA\" ), antiAlias );

    executeAction( charIDToTypeID( \"setd\" ), makeSelection, DialogModes.NO );

  } makeEllipseSelection( arguments[0] , arguments[1] , arguments[2] , arguments[3] , arguments[4] , arguments[5] , arguments[6] );") ¬
  • with arguments {selShape, selTop, selLeft, selBottom, selRight, antiAlias, featherAmt}
  • fill selection of current document with contents ¬
    • {class:RGB color, red:81, green:172, blue:205} blend mode ¬ vivid light opacity 90 without preserving transparency
  • end repeat

    -- display dialog "minX: " & minX & " miny: " & minY & " maxX: " & maxX & " maxY: " & maxY crop current document bounds {cropNWx, cropNWy, cropSEx, cropSEy} -- resize image current document width resultWidth -- save current document in resultGraphic as PNG with copying

  end tell

end drawMap

-- Write down all the imagemap data for a clickable map on a web page on linkMap()

• tell application "TextEdit"

  • set imageMapText to "" repeat with z in myList
    • set spotName to item 1 of z set x to item 2 of z set y to item 3 of z set x to round ((x - cropNWx) * (resultWidth / scaleX)) set y to round ((y - cropNWy) * ((resultWidth / scaleX) * scaleY) / scaleY) set x to x - 2 set y to y - 3

      set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " " set stringParts to text items of spotName set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "" set spotName to stringParts as text

      set imageMapText to imageMapText & "<area shape=\"circle\" alt=\"" & spotName & "\" coords=\"" & x & "," & y & "," & (round ((dotRadius + 1) / 2)) & "\" href=\"#" & spotName & "\">" & return

    end repeat set text of document 1 to imageMapText
  end tell

end linkMap

-- Load data for spots from a spreadsheet on loadList()

• tell application "Microsoft Excel"
  • Open pdxSpotList set myRow to 1 set myList to {} repeat
    • set tuple to {} repeat with myColumn from 1 to 3

      • set currentCell to "R" & myRow & "C" & myColumn as string set cellText to text of Cell currentCell if cellText is "" then exit repeat set end of tuple to cellText

      end repeat if cellText is "" then exit repeat set end of myList to tuple set myRow to myRow + 1
    end repeat Quit
  end tell

end loadList

main()

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