Part 1: Loading, projecting, and drawing geodata
I’m getting into more canvas and JavaScript for interactive mapping. Much of the Flash/ActionScript work I’ve written or come to rely upon is directly portable to JS/canvas. What’s missing is a sweet RIA framework and IDE for the kind of development Flash and Flex have made possible [...]
posts tagged 'jquery'
Jun 15 2010
Interactive mapping with HTML5, JavaScript, and Canvas
Jul 24 2009
visualizing MLB hit locations on a Google Map
Here’s a map of yesterday’s perfect game pitched by Mark Buehrle — only the 18th in MLB history. Highlighted is defensive replacement Dewayne Wise’s perfect game-saving catch over the wall in the 9th inning.
Here the same, as displayed by MLB’s Gameday, for which the initial pixel coordinates were collected.
The conversion from the pixel-based coordinates used [...]