From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <3aaafc130906051901i4950eefcje109d2aca5f8e1a2@mail.gmail.com>
References: <3aaafc130906051901i4950eefcje109d2aca5f8e1a2@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri,  5 Jun 2009 23:14:31 -0400
Message-ID: <3aaafc130906052014m6fafdaeajc40866e714a3312@mail.gmail.com>
From: "J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Re: [9fans] geoloc - a crappy script I wrote.
Topicbox-Message-UUID: 05e66828-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:01 PM, J.R. Mauro<jrm8005@gmail.com> wrote:

> generally useful besides a gmap helper, I suppose. I'm trying to see
> if I can get something like google maps directions based on geoloc
> since the yahoo site it uses seems to not fail if you give it a very
> vague address, unlike most other services I've tried. I suppose I
> could try to see if I can get a barebones access to google maps
> directions. Like an XML page or something. If anyone knows how, I'd
> appreciate some pointers.

Here's a hack on top of my hack. The real suckage comes from me making
geoloc separate lat and lon with '?' to appease gmap. It's a small
change if you don't like it. I really want subway directions, but
apparently Yahoo can't do that. I'll keep digging.


#!/bin/rc
# directions -- print directions from a coordinate pair to another.

if (! ~ $#* 2) {
	echo Usage: directions lat1?lon1 lat2?lon2
	exit
}

SLA = `{echo $1 | sed -e 's/\?.*//'}
SLO = `{echo $1 | sed -e 's/.*\?//'}
DLA = `{echo $2 | sed -e 's/\?.*//'}
DLO = `{echo $2 | sed -e 's/.*\?//'}

#echo I got: $SLA $SLO $DLA $DLO

hget 'http://maps.yahoo.com/print?mvt=m&tp=1&stx=&fcat=&frat=&clat='^$DLA^'&clon='^$DLO^'&mag=10&zoom=9&trf=0&radius=134.16445&&q1='$SLA'%20'^$SLO^'&q2='^$DLA^'%20'^$DLO^'&v3=0'
| htmlfmt