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problem with two key ranges in couchdb

I'm having problem getting the right results in my coordinate system. To explain my system, I have this simple database that have x_axis, y_axis and name columns. I don't need to get all the data, I just need to display some part of it. For example, I have a coordinate system that have 10:10(meaning from x_axis -10 to 10 and from y_ax...

iPhone: mapView.showUserLocation. VS locationUpdate function

Hi, I have a question. I'm developing on an app that is location-based, I have a mapView set to show the user location (mapView.showUserLocation); I also have a locationUpdate function to retrive lat/long of current position: (void)locationUpdate:(CLLocation *)location{} After I call the function stopUpdatingLocation to stop the upd...

Realigning GPS coordinates by Hook or Crook

Hello due to reasons of chinese paranoia and google being a bunch of pansies I am in the situation where I need to alter a number of gps waypoints stored in a gpx file so they are are correctly aligned with google map which is not correctly aligned... for reasons for aforementioned paranoia. So I have a waypoint with a known landmark (r...

How to generate Cartesian Coordinate (x,y) from GridBaglayout?

My question related to previous post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2374295/how-to-fill-color-in-grid-boxes-randomly How can I get Cartesian Coordinate (x,y) of each of the boxes filled by color in Gridbaglayout. For example, if the size of the panel is 300 x 300, and the row and column is set to 5 x 5, Is there any way we will kno...

How to get image's coordinate on JPanel

This question is related to my previous question http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2376027/how-to-generate-cartesian-coordinate-x-y-from-gridbaglayout I have successfully get the coordinate of each pictures, however when I checked the coordinate through (System.out.println) and the placement of the images on the screen, it seems to be ...

MySQL GIS Lat/Lon to X/Y: which is which?

Is there a convention for whether GIS points in MySQL should be stored as POINT($latitude $longitude) or POINT($longitude $latitude)? Having longitude correspond to X on a cartesian map would visually make more sense with north pointing up, but common parlance is to say "latitude and longitude." ...

[Javascript]Get coordinate from openlayers map

Hi, I would get the coordinate from an openlayers map. When I open my page I would that when I click on a button, I have received the coordinate of top bottom left and the upper right. <html> <head> <title>OpenLayers Example</title> <script src="http://openlayers.org/api/OpenLayers.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt; </head> <body> ...

calculating new gps coordinates given initial coordinate and *Small* range

Hi, I'm trying to figure out how to calculate a min/max lat/long bound on the specific given range of a gps coordinate. for example: gps coord 37.42935699924869,-122.16962099075317 range .2 miles I'm looking at the point + range + bearing in the http://www.movable-type.co.uk/scripts/latlong.html site but im not sure if this is exactl...

Pyqt get pixel position and value when mouse click on the image

Hello, Overwriting mouse event on pixMapItem didn't work for me ; the mouse click event is not detected by the pixMapItem. Here is my code : import sys from PyQt4.QtCore import * from PyQt4.QtGui import * class DrawImage( QMainWindow ): def init(self, path): QMainWindow.__init__(self) self.setWindowTitle('Select Window') ...

Shortest distance between point and path

Hi, for a geo-based online game I'm looking for an algorithm which finds the shortest distance between a specified point and a known path connected by x/y-coordinates, so that I can kill all redundant points/nodes. A link or keyword for this algorithm would help me a lot! thanks for reading For better understanding: ...

iOS CALayer: Problem creating custom coordinate system

I have a layer that takes the whole iPhone screen. I want to change the coordinate system so that (-1,-1) is in the bottom left, and (1,1) in the top right; for the layer and its sub layers. how do I go about it? This isn't as easy as setting the transform: previously I was overriding my view's drawRect, and accomplished the transf...

Way to Map Small Values to Large and Vice Versa

I am currently working on a tool that will allow Wiimote to be used as computer mouse and am stuck in a problem. The wiimote returns x and y co-ordinates which are very small as compared to screen resolution of my pc and I am looking for a way to map these small values to my large resolution values. For example, pc least x value is 0 an...

Detect Motion on axis in android

HI, I am willing to implement a logic in which i need to know about the amount of motion made by phone on x y or z axis, using accelerometer i can only find acceleration on these axis, even if i try calculating the relative x coordinate value based on acceleration on x axis, its of no use as i cannot determine the direction of motion (i....

Need a resource for pairing cities to coordinates

I have a list of cities (and some other locations) around the world, formatted like this: America/Antigua America/Anguilla Europe/Tirane Asia/Yerevan America/Curacao Africa/Luanda Antarctica/McMurdo And I need to get their corresponding coordinates formatted like this: Europe/Stockholm 59.21N 18.04W Since I have a r...