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Light Pollution block

Posted: Tue May 22, 2018 9:16 pm
by Steve Harpin
Jachym, is there any chance of some collaboration with Junj Stare to develop his light pollution project for use as a block or plugin in the Astronomy section? The info section is here https://www.lightpollutionmap.info/help.html I have emailed the guy to see what he might be induced to offer in the way of script advice

Steve

Re: Light Pollution block

Posted: Wed May 23, 2018 3:20 pm
by Jachym
Hi Steve,
if there is some kind of API then I could see what is possible

Re: Light Pollution block

Posted: Thu May 24, 2018 5:38 pm
by Steve Harpin
This is what Jurij Stare had to say in a follow up email to me

"Hi Steve,

My API only has the ability to get you various floating point values from
a selected raster by a location query.
But If he wants to use my WMS services directly then we need to talk,
because it could potentially involve large amounts of bandwidth data.

Best regards,
Jurij "


I have already embedded a location-focussed page in a test folder outside my template but it looks like there could be some mileage in talking to this guy. His email is starej@t-2.net if you feel like following it up. Could be an awesome plugin for the future
My test page is http://the9libraries.org.uk/test/light% ... ution.html

Re: Light Pollution block

Posted: Thu May 24, 2018 7:14 pm
by Jachym
Hi Steve,

the problem is that as he mentioned it could be a major server load and I cannot tell how large because MT pages are not hosted on my server

Re: Light Pollution block

Posted: Fri May 25, 2018 2:50 pm
by Steve Harpin
I understand Jachym. It was worth a suggestion but I try to appreciate the problems and also the workload involved. thanks for considering it