idea: map your books?
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1rsterling
I'm a complete novice with APIs, but I wanted to throw an idea out here to see if anyone who understands APIs better could think of a way to make it workable.
It would be really cool to have a widget (ideally eventually one that could be put on LT profiles, but external would be good too) that would map your catalog, based on CK data for your books. I was thinking of something that would highlight countries and/or cities, regions, etc. (scale, debatable) of the setting for your books, based on "important places" - something where the result was similar to those "countries I've visited" memes. (The same idea could be extended to author nationalities, etc.)
I noticed on an old thread that MMcM had tried to do a google map of locations for a single book, though I wasn't sure from the thread whether it had worked or not.
http://www.librarything.fr/topic/42800#723722
I was thinking of something on a larger scale, for a whole library. Those of you with some experience with LT APIs and maybe Google Maps APIs: is something like this idea possible?
It would be really cool to have a widget (ideally eventually one that could be put on LT profiles, but external would be good too) that would map your catalog, based on CK data for your books. I was thinking of something that would highlight countries and/or cities, regions, etc. (scale, debatable) of the setting for your books, based on "important places" - something where the result was similar to those "countries I've visited" memes. (The same idea could be extended to author nationalities, etc.)
I noticed on an old thread that MMcM had tried to do a google map of locations for a single book, though I wasn't sure from the thread whether it had worked or not.
http://www.librarything.fr/topic/42800#723722
I was thinking of something on a larger scale, for a whole library. Those of you with some experience with LT APIs and maybe Google Maps APIs: is something like this idea possible?
2atlefren
I have actually tried this, but ran across a problem:
in order to get the CK-data for each of the books in my library i have to make about 200 rest-requests to the CK API, which would break the API-limit.
So what I did insted was prefixing some of my tags with "place:" and then used the tag to locate the book.
Then it is just a question of finding a position for the placename, I used geonames.org, which provides a free api for geolocation (placename to coordinates)
An eary prototype using Openlayers, geonames and my own lt json api to php parser can be found at http://kart.atlefren.net/bookmap.php
in order to get the CK-data for each of the books in my library i have to make about 200 rest-requests to the CK API, which would break the API-limit.
So what I did insted was prefixing some of my tags with "place:" and then used the tag to locate the book.
Then it is just a question of finding a position for the placename, I used geonames.org, which provides a free api for geolocation (placename to coordinates)
An eary prototype using Openlayers, geonames and my own lt json api to php parser can be found at http://kart.atlefren.net/bookmap.php
3geitebukkeskjegg
Hmm. We've got IMDB links in CK Related Movies. Could we have Google Map links in CK Important Places?
That would actually be useful.
That would actually be useful.
