Printing maps/profile

PerfesserR

posted: 5/2/2007 at 7:55 AM

Hey Eric, would it be possible to have the "print" function also include the elevation profile?

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eric :)

posted: 5/2/2007 at 7:48 PM

Russ, The elevation profile is printed on a separate page from the map. eric Smile

Trent

posted: 5/3/2007 at 7:01 PM

It would be great if we could link to the elevation or the map in such a way that they can be displayed as static images on websites or message boards.

I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.

Poor baby

eric :)

posted: 5/3/2007 at 9:39 PM

Quote from Trent on 5/3/2007 at 7:01 PM:

It would be great if we could link to the elevation or the map in such a way that they can be displayed as static images on websites or message boards.

That would be nice, and I'm sure it's doable, but it won't be easy. Besides, I don't want to turn the site into a storage service.

PerfesserR

posted: 5/4/2007 at 6:32 AM

Quote from eric :) on 5/2/2007 at 7:48 PM:

Russ, The elevation profile is printed on a separate page from the map. eric

Eric, When I use the "print" button it just generates one page, the map. There's no elevation profile and no second page. No biggie, I can use a screen shot. JTYMLTK.

"Able to function despite imminent catastrophe"

"The most common question from potential entrants is 'I do not know if I can do this' to which I usually answer, 'that's the whole point'.--Paul Charteris, Tarawera Ultramarathon RD.

"They just couldn't believe that somebody would do all that running for no reason."--Forrest Gump

Boston Marathon 15 April

Big Sur Marathon 28 April

Bighorn 50 Mile 15 June

Tahoe Rim Trail 100M 20/21 July

Trent

posted: 5/4/2007 at 7:08 AM
modified: 5/4/2007 at 10:41 AM

I am not sure what you mean by "storage service". For logging runs and establishing courses, that is exactly what this site does. The maps at motionbased can do this already. For example, I ran a trail in a local park and it generates an elevation profile that I can display as an image:

If you look at the image url, you see that it is actually just a call that generates the image from a bunch of arguments: http://trail.motionbased.com/trail/chart/get.mb?xy.domain=totalDistance&xy.ranges=elevation&xy.histogram =false&xy.legendVisible=false&xy.primaryRangeAxisVisible=true&xy.secondaryRangeAxisVisible=true&xy.ran geTitlesVisible=true&xy.domainAxisVisible=true&xy.plotForegroundOpacity=0.75&episodePk.pkValue=10998 47&xy.plotForegroundOpacity=0.75&xy.autoFit=true&xy.width=500&xy.height=225 One of the arguments lets me size the image:

or this:

I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.

Poor baby

Wingz

posted: 5/4/2007 at 11:56 AM

Quote from PerfesserR on 5/4/2007 at 6:32 AM:

Eric, When I use the "print" button it just generates one page, the map. There's no elevation profile and no second page. No biggie, I can use a screen shot. JTYMLTK.

This used to work, but it's not right now. Confused

I just tried it too, using IE6. I went to view course, then selected elevation profile. the profile came up, and I clicked on the print button. Then the map printed but not the elevation profile.

Roads were made for journeys...

eric :)

posted: 5/4/2007 at 8:37 PM

It's one thing to display the elevations as images, and another to save the maps. Maps are harder because the map images aren't on my server.

eric :)

posted: 5/4/2007 at 8:45 PM

Quote from PerfesserR on 5/4/2007 at 6:32 AM:

Eric, When I use the "print" button it just generates one page, the map. There's no elevation profile and no second page. No biggie, I can use a screen shot. JTYMLTK.

Russ, Do you have a map that I can test out? Which browser do you use?

Trent

posted: 5/4/2007 at 10:23 PM

Quote from eric :) on 5/4/2007 at 8:37 PM:

It's one thing to display the elevations as images, and another to save the maps. Maps are harder because the map images aren't on my server.

Can you generate the images on the fly based on url calls, such as how the elevation works? (BTW, I do NOT know this type of code to know if it is possible or not).

I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.

Poor baby

PerfesserR

posted: 5/7/2007 at 10:04 AM

Quote from eric :) on 5/4/2007 at 8:45 PM:

Russ, Do you have a map that I can test out? Which browser do you use?

Both Safari and Firefox. The elevation is on the browser page but not on the print page or print preview: http://www.runningahead.com/maps/b22a5786af9247ae980f1165ba0bef5a

"Able to function despite imminent catastrophe"

"The most common question from potential entrants is 'I do not know if I can do this' to which I usually answer, 'that's the whole point'.--Paul Charteris, Tarawera Ultramarathon RD.

"They just couldn't believe that somebody would do all that running for no reason."--Forrest Gump

Boston Marathon 15 April

Big Sur Marathon 28 April

Bighorn 50 Mile 15 June

Tahoe Rim Trail 100M 20/21 July

PerfesserR

posted: 7/21/2007 at 3:03 PM

Eric, Sorry to be a bother, but..any progress on this?

"Able to function despite imminent catastrophe"

"The most common question from potential entrants is 'I do not know if I can do this' to which I usually answer, 'that's the whole point'.--Paul Charteris, Tarawera Ultramarathon RD.

"They just couldn't believe that somebody would do all that running for no reason."--Forrest Gump

Boston Marathon 15 April

Big Sur Marathon 28 April

Bighorn 50 Mile 15 June

Tahoe Rim Trail 100M 20/21 July

eric :)

posted: 7/23/2007 at 9:49 AM

Quote from PerfesserR on 7/21/2007 at 3:03 PM:

Eric, Sorry to be a bother, but..any progress on this?

Hi Russ, Sorry I haven't looked into this. I've been too wrapped up in the GPS stuff. The last I checked, Firefox still haven't fixed the printing problem (the lines don't show up) so printing it won't do you much good. I also haven't installed the Windows version of Safari yet so I can't really look into that. There is a lot of work going into the site right now and I rather wait until the dust settles before looking into these browser specific problems. eric Smile

PerfesserR

posted: 7/24/2007 at 4:54 AM

No sweat Eric, "Grab" (screenshot) works OK.

"Able to function despite imminent catastrophe"

"The most common question from potential entrants is 'I do not know if I can do this' to which I usually answer, 'that's the whole point'.--Paul Charteris, Tarawera Ultramarathon RD.

"They just couldn't believe that somebody would do all that running for no reason."--Forrest Gump

Boston Marathon 15 April

Big Sur Marathon 28 April

Bighorn 50 Mile 15 June

Tahoe Rim Trail 100M 20/21 July

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