The FRC Teams of 2012 (Google Maps)

[John Sabath]

Originally Posted by Kristian Calhoun

Great work, John!

Would you mind sharing the data set/KML you used for this? I've been wanting to create a similar demo using Cesium.

Sure thing.

Originally Posted by artdutra04

Was this generated manually or is it database driven?

Originally Posted by Jay Money 1058

This is pretty cool! Did you just take a list of current teams and plot them out one by one? I feel like this would take a few weeks at least

I parsed this into a CSV (Needed city, state, and country to be in the same column) and then imported it into a Google Fusion table.

Google recognizes the last column as geographical data and allows you to visualize it that way.

Originally Posted by artdutra04

...I assume the code is currently displaying the markers on the geographical center of the town/city/area. When displaying the data, have the code check if any other teams are from that same city; if so, add a small offset (a few hundred meters) to the display coordinates.

That is correct. Google Earth has the ability to expand overlapping points if you click on them, but unfortunately Google Maps does not. There is a custom Javascript plugin for it that would do the job, but that would require me to have my own hosting option.