NOTE: You can see the results of my hard work here:
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http://free.naplesplus.us/...ily-events
(notice how the events STOP right at the border of North Naples
+ Bonita Springs.)
March 24, 2009: Wow to me! I figured out how to show ONLY
Collier County events on the calendar. You think that'd be easy,
right? It's not! GEOCODING street addresses is SUCH at its
infancy right now.
When I put together the events feeds (which come from a dozen
different, convoluted places and ways and methods that I'm
afraid to get into right now), I often will get stuff from
Estero, Ft Myers, Bonita Springs, etc as well. While it'd be
okay if there were a map that had those things on it, I'm really
trying to focus hard on Collier County FL as much as possible,
rather than trying to be everything for everybody.
So, after getting the latitude and longitude of the various
events (again, you don't wanna know what a house of cards it is
that it works at ALL), THEN I had to selectly CUT OUT areas that
don't belong.
THANKFULLY, due to two wonderful facts, I could do what I ended
up doing:
Fact #1: Collier County is so far south, I don't have to worry
about anything south of collier accidentally showing up.
Fact #2: The SHAPE of collier county! Ever look at it? There's
two beautiful rectangles that I can work with.
So, I ended up:
a) cutting out anything north + east of the northeasternest
corner of collier county b) then cutting out anything north and
east of the inside corner of the first rectangle (working from
east to west c) then cutting out anything north and east of the
other inside corner of the next rectangle.
Long story short, what's left behind is ONLY Collier County!
Without the wonderful shape of C.C., this would not have worked.
But it does! The hardest part really, was finding out what the
longitude and latitude was of those exact points where Lee +
Collier connect.
Had to use a federal government mapping thing called TIGER.
Wonderful thing.
Hope it helps you find things to do 'round here every day!
(p.s. - I would have kept bonita, estero, cape coral, etc, but
there are just TOO MANY THINGS going on in our county to show
everything in swfla.)
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