{"id":129,"date":"2007-07-15T20:59:25","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T01:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/?p=129"},"modified":"2007-07-17T15:33:09","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T20:33:09","slug":"a-little-something-i-threw-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/2007\/07\/a-little-something-i-threw-together\/","title":{"rendered":"A little something I threw together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, this isn&#8217;t terribly musical, but I decided to throw together a little <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\">Google Maps<\/a> mash-up last night. <\/p>\n<p>Basically, I took a bunch of <a href=\"http:\/\/geonames.usgs.gov\/\">USGS GeoName <\/a> data, pulled the &#8220;summit&#8221; data (aka mountains and hills, etc.) out and reformatted it into XML. The script will then display all the mountains on the map for a particular state\/territory (all 50 states, DC, and most territories are represented). For a state with a lot of peaks (California, Alaska, New York, etc.) it&#8217;s really slow to render. Be patient. Hopefully I&#8217;ll come up with something a bit faster\/better soon.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully this is just the first of many &#8220;maphacks&#8221;, as I call them.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/maphacks\">MapHacks<\/a> here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, this isn&#8217;t terribly musical, but I decided to throw together a little Google Maps mash-up last night. Basically, I took a bunch of USGS GeoName data, pulled the &#8220;summit&#8221; data (aka mountains and hills, etc.) out and reformatted it into XML. The script will then display all the mountains&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/2007\/07\/a-little-something-i-threw-together\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,21,22,23,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-gis","category-maphacks","category-maps","category-new-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glacialcommunications.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}