Experimenting with Google-Adsense
As you might have noticed, i added something to the blog …
It’s more or less an experiment to see if and what will happen on a (very) special-interest site like mine …
Realtime Traffic Messages
Update: the receiving and processing of TMC radio is currently disabled
Update: constantly improving the decoder …
I finally set up a small embedded linux computer (ZFx86 @ 100MHz, 32MB) with one of my mp5_redux PC104 add-on boards to receive and decode TMC (Traffic Message Channel)-messages out of RDS (Radio Data System).
The system is set up to receive SWR3 (coverage: nrw, hessen, rheinland-pfalz, saarland, baden-württemberg, bayern) and Bayern 3 (coverage: bavaria) simultaneously, decode each datastream and write the combined data to a sqlite database. The database-file is pushed to the alrightythen-server every 5 minutes. Here a php-script does the extra Geo-RSS formatting. This adds up to 10mins delay to the data.
http://www.alrightythen.de/demos/tmc_stream/georss.php
Please note: This is just for demo purposes. It is not guaranteed to be exact, up-to-date or even available … Although i expect it to be available and up-to-date (with ~10min delay) from around 7:30 to 20:00.
If you are interested in the technology involved in receiving, decoding or publishing, mail me .
I have added the feed to GeoFeeder too.
Facebook game to use maptech
Having fun with another not-so-standard project: Pet Dragons 2, a Facebook game. And guess what, it’s the map that i’m working on. It integrates the maptech engine with some AJAX methodology.
Right now it is in beta testing (will report when live!).
See Pet Dragons 1, the running game.
Read Pet Dragons 2 group on what’s coming.
Mapping with AJAX
Yes, i can do mapping in AJAX too. Although debugging and developing is much harder with a platform to span html, javascript and PHP.
From a functional point of view we’re right at the beginning, but will improve over time.
And as small snippet on content pages:
flex: Making a percentage-sized VBox scroll
If you’re using a VBox with a pixel height, it will scroll as expected.
If you’re using a percentage sized VBox, it won’t scroll when it’s content grows in size: the scrollbars will be “pushed somewhere up the component hierarchy”.
To make it scroll, set it’s minHeight=0.
Found this here.
