Angling Technologies Mapping Program

[Dan]

Hey,
I need some help with this Angling Technologies mapping program ( http://mapper.angling-technologies.com/atom/pmap.php# ). I want to embed a map on my blog. It says to click on "My Maps." When I do the Bradley Roy map pops up. When I follow the prompts to post a map, I get the one from the demo.
My Mac is set to default to the Mac Mail which I don't pay to use. I use Yahoo. The point there is when I try to use their contact button it does not show me an email address. My computer just defaults to the Apple mail program which I don't pay for and don't use.
Any help would be appreciated.

[djkimmel]

First off, are you sure they don't have copyright protection on those images?

[Dan]

If you watch their demo, one of the things they talk about is being able to use their tools to create such a map. They also talk about how for $10 you can then advertise using it. The way the demo talked it sounded like you could use their options to send friends emails with maps, embed them, etc.

[Dan]

Hey Lt. Dan
After sending in a query to angling-technologies, we found that the problem I was having was a Safari browser issue. I switched to Firefox and all is well. This program works great for sending emails of a lake to someone. It also works well for embedding maps on web pages. My next blog I am going to post a map. I've already tested it so I know it will work.  Neat site. Great interface they have developed.

[djkimmel]

Sounds interesting. The Internet is full of tools that can be helpful if you find them. I'll have to check it out again one of these days. Have to review their rules for commercial sites.

I'm in browser purgatory myself right now. Do some coding. Test it in 4 browsers. Three are fine. One's all goofed up (usually IE which of course is still the one most used). It would be nice if they would all get in a room and come to some type of agreement. Making web sites that do anything interesting always ends up being a compromise over what you'd prefer to do. Sometimes you can code for the browsers to do one thing for this browser and another for that but that isn't something I'm real good at yet.

[Dan]

I embedded two maps in my http://teardropbass.com/ daily blog. If you use your mouse and click on them you can move them all around. The one map of Duck and Green Lake, for instance, you can pull down which will move you north. If you go a short distance you will see Long Lake. If you use the zoom bar on the left it will, by name, zoom you in or out. It will also pop the "Overlays" window up and you can turn on or off contour lines, etc. Not all the lakes have contour lines. They are working to add more.
I am also going to try to paste in a link from a map email that I sent. You can use the buttons at the top of the Angling Tech page http://mapper.angling-technologies.com/atom/pmap.php#  to send an email of an area that you have selected.
Here's the email that I sent a buddy that has Lakes Cadillac and Mitchell in them. Link: http://mapper.angling-technologies.com/atom/pmap.php?zoom=13&lat=44.25129&lon=-85.44634&layers=B00TTFTFFTFFFF
Make sure you remind people in the email to close the Bradley Roy window that opens on top of the map. If not they may click on one of those buttons and miss the map you sent them which is behind the Bradley Roy window.
When the Cadillac Mitchell maps open go to the top and click the button that says layers and then click on contour lines and you will get the depth markings.
Seems to work rather well. Neat tool.

[Dan]

Just messin around to see if this map would appear. I guess it just appears as a link. When I paste it in my web page it shows up. Try clicking on it and see if you get a map of the Traverse City area. It takes a few seconds for it to load depending on your internet speed.
When you click on the zoom bar on the left and move it in or out a tad you will see a window pop up that has check boxes. You can then click on features to add to the map. Just use your mouse to click anywhere on the map and drag it to move around. If you go to angling technologies there will be a map  of  North America and you then use the zoom button, up at the top (the magnifying glass button). Once you click on that button you then click and drag a box around an area you want to zoom in on. FYI there are not contour lines for all the lakes yet.
As you move the mouse around it gives you GPS coordinates in the bottom left of the map screen.
'http://mapper.angling-technologies.com/atom/pmap.php?zoom=9&layers=B00FFFTFFTFFFFT&lat=45.12393&lon=-85.42969&mymap=1';

[djkimmel]

Allowing the web site owner to use iframes = ok. Allowing anyone who comes to a web site to use iframes <> ok (definitely  ). Severe hacking risk so it is not allowed on here. Someone could easily come here - or to any site - and misdirect people to another web site anywhere with very bad intent without them even knowing it.

If you can get just an image version, you can post that as long as it isn't greater than 500 x 500 pixels (I forget the file size limit - 750Kb total I think?) by attaching it or linking to it from somewhere on the Internet.

[Dan]

I was trying to see if it would put the map in the comment box. Obviously it didn't. You shouldn't give toys to the students to play with. Sorry, I didn't and still don't really know what an iframe is. Unlike you, I don't do my own website coding anymore.

[djkimmel]

Wow! You rakin' in that many bucks now!!! Impressive!

[Dan]

If I had your money, I'd burn mine. I still don't know what an iFrame is.

[djkimmel]

I will send you my money. Will singles do? (It will actually only take 1).

Iframe = inline frame that contains another document on a web page

Check out this example and see if you can think of some real mischief someone might cause using this! After you've seen this, say so and I'll remove the code.

REMOVED WINDOW

[Dan]

What's wrong with that window? It looks pretty good to me. In the case of the Angling Technologies map, it would be useful to have the map show up. One thing I've found using their program is that when you send your map you've marked up to someone, whatever you mark up doesn't show up.
I'm sure you get a bunch of requests from people wanting info about certain lakes. I get a couple a week. Having a mapping program like this would really be handy. Maybe I can correspond with the makers, I have talked to them already about a problem with Safari, to see if they can design something that will be emailable and contain marks.
Did you read the blog? The Art Prize in downtown GR is really something. The pictures of some of the top ten were included at the end of the blog.
Talk about a money maker for businesses downtown. There are thousands of people down there every day and it runs through next weekend.

[djkimmel]

What's wrong with an iframe is that someone could develop a web page that looks like the web page they are placing the iframe in. Then they could install something really nasty to happen when someone 'visits' their page (the contained iframe document). Your visitors would think they are, for example, clicking links on your trusted page, when they are really clicking links on a completely different web site of an evil hacker who wants to do some harm.

The visitor would think the whole time that they never left your trusted page and visited a completely different evil web site because it looks like they are on your web page. Which they are. BUT they are ALSO on the other web page. At the same time. It's one of the real good reasons not to let visitors and users of your web site insert their own html code.

It is also not nice, and a copyright violation often, to frame part or all of someone else's web page within your own. I have seen it done, but not recently.

[Dan]

I was thinking what's wrong with such a nice looking webpage . I can see now where the iFrame can lead to hacker city. Must be the same reason you're asked to choose a "sign-in" seal on yahoo mail.
If you look at the Angling Tech maps, when you have your DK Opens it would give everyone a good look at the lake or lakes from a common map. You would be the one inserting the frame then. It is one of their options on the site.

[djkimmel]

I know you liked your web page (although you said you aren't doing it anymore?). I appreciate the information. When I get a spare moment, I'll take a look at it. Many great (and even free) tools on the Internet to spruce things up.

[Dan]

No, I still do the web page blog, I just don't do all the page set ups and the coding that that takes.