Comments on: Challenge Map I – Python Web Scraping http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2005/11/21/challenge-map-i-python-web-scraping Rachel Blum on Software, Games And The Rest Of Life Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:39:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Rene http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2005/11/21/challenge-map-i-python-web-scraping/comment-page-1#comment-80711 Rene Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:44:55 +0000 http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2005/11/21/challenge-map-i-python-web-scraping#comment-80711 <p>Would you share this code?</p> <p>thanks</p> Would you share this code?

thanks

]]> By: Robert Blum http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2005/11/21/challenge-map-i-python-web-scraping/comment-page-1#comment-37 Robert Blum Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:46:27 +0000 http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2005/11/21/challenge-map-i-python-web-scraping#comment-37 <p>Thanks for the encouragement!</p> <p>I saw that Frappr did non-US places, but you could only place by city, which is a bit coarse for me. I just noticed that the newest Frappr then allows you to move the marker by hand - but still, it's a lot of manual work, and I wanted the challenge results to be as easy as possible.</p> Thanks for the encouragement!

I saw that Frappr did non-US places, but you could only place by city, which is a bit coarse for me. I just noticed that the newest Frappr then allows you to move the marker by hand – but still, it’s a lot of manual work, and I wanted the challenge results to be as easy as possible.

]]> By: Gibarian http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2005/11/21/challenge-map-i-python-web-scraping/comment-page-1#comment-36 Gibarian Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:01:46 +0000 http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2005/11/21/challenge-map-i-python-web-scraping#comment-36 <p>Nice idea, that map. I just wanted to write that another advantage of your implementation is the fact that other places than the US can be incorporated as well, but then I checked out Frappr once again, and noticed that they do in fact support other places (and somehow I must have missed that during earlier visits). Well, I still like your map. Good work.</p> Nice idea, that map. I just wanted to write that another advantage of your implementation is the fact that other places than the US can be incorporated as well, but then I checked out Frappr once again, and noticed that they do in fact support other places (and somehow I must have missed that during earlier visits). Well, I still like your map. Good work.

]]> By: Robert Blum http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2005/11/21/challenge-map-i-python-web-scraping/comment-page-1#comment-35 Robert Blum Tue, 22 Nov 2005 04:45:28 +0000 http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2005/11/21/challenge-map-i-python-web-scraping#comment-35 <p>Thanks for pointing out the link - fixed.</p> <p>And yes, I have checked out Frappr. That's what made me do this. While Frappr is cool, it's a pain to add additional places, and it only allows you to specify ZIP codes - which is not precise enough. There's about 300 Starbucks per ZIP in LA ;)</p> <p>I stumbled upon the mess that is JavaScript, Geocoder and IE while doing research - I'm glad I could avoid it. This site has all the data pre-coded in an xml file. (Which, at least technically, makes it all Ajax-y ;), so I just load that and go. More details in the next post.</p> <p>So you're in the web design business now, I take it? Hope things are working out?</p> Thanks for pointing out the link – fixed.

And yes, I have checked out Frappr. That’s what made me do this. While Frappr is cool, it’s a pain to add additional places, and it only allows you to specify ZIP codes – which is not precise enough. There’s about 300 Starbucks per ZIP in LA ;)

I stumbled upon the mess that is JavaScript, Geocoder and IE while doing research – I’m glad I could avoid it. This site has all the data pre-coded in an xml file. (Which, at least technically, makes it all Ajax-y ;) , so I just load that and go. More details in the next post.

So you’re in the web design business now, I take it? Hope things are working out?

]]> By: Paul http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2005/11/21/challenge-map-i-python-web-scraping/comment-page-1#comment-34 Paul Mon, 21 Nov 2005 19:03:17 +0000 http://www.robertblum.com/articles/2005/11/21/challenge-map-i-python-web-scraping#comment-34 <p>Have you checked out Frappr? I thought it was a clever idea. It will only be a short while before Google does something similar tied into GoogleBase. http://www.frappr.com/</p> <p>I had to incorporate Google maps on a client's PHP based site a couple months ago. I wound up using a PHP include to hit geocoder.us and embed the result in the page and then parse it with Javascript on the client side. Javascript XML parsing is passable. Except it works slightly different in IE (of course). We've had a couple of misses with geocoder missing some addresses recently so I'm going to take a peek at the Yahoo geocoding API pretty soon.</p> <p>BTW, your link to "Fair Trade Coffee" is broken at the moment.</p> Have you checked out Frappr? I thought it was a clever idea. It will only be a short while before Google does something similar tied into GoogleBase. http://www.frappr.com/

I had to incorporate Google maps on a client’s PHP based site a couple months ago. I wound up using a PHP include to hit geocoder.us and embed the result in the page and then parse it with Javascript on the client side. Javascript XML parsing is passable. Except it works slightly different in IE (of course). We’ve had a couple of misses with geocoder missing some addresses recently so I’m going to take a peek at the Yahoo geocoding API pretty soon.

BTW, your link to “Fair Trade Coffee” is broken at the moment.

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