The FRC Teams of 2012 (Google Maps)

[dictionaria13]

It's interesting to see where the teams cluster. The Pacific Northwest has a lot more teams than anyone gives us credit for! And it is unfortunate that it only shows one team per city. Still super cool.

[Jibsy]

Originally Posted by John Sabath

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.

I'm no expert on Google Fusion Tables... how much different is mapping it in Google Earth?

Sounds like a community challenge to track down locations of all FRC teams in a collaborative google doc!

[1986titans]

This sounds a lot like WITWIF.

http://team1649.com/witwif/

[John Sabath]

Originally Posted by Jibsy

I'm no expert on Google Fusion Tables... how much different is mapping it in Google Earth?

Sounds like a community challenge to track down locations of all FRC teams in a collaborative google doc!

You could simply open the kml file with Google Earth.

[n1ckd2012]

Thanks! This will help me find a team near my university!

[Borobo]

poor south dakota. all left out

[HedgeHogGal99]

This map is pretty cool to look at. I find it really neat to look and see where teams are from even if some are missing or overlapping

[rachelholladay]

Thanks for sharing this. I've been doing a lot of KML mapping at work (for the Department of Defense) and its interesting to see it put to this use. The formatting of KML is a little strange but it displays very nicely on GE.

It would be interesting to see all the levels of FIRST mapped together (perhaps with FLL is one color, FTC is another, etc.)

[John Sabath]

Originally Posted by rachelholladay

Thanks for sharing this. I've been doing a lot of KML mapping at work (for the Department of Defense) and its interesting to see it put to this use. The formatting of KML is a little strange but it displays very nicely on GE.

It would be interesting to see all the levels of FIRST mapped together (perhaps with FLL is one color, FTC is another, etc.)

I could dump the KML files for those too if you'd like? Give me a bit; I'll do it right now.

EDIT: The FLL data doesn't seem to be organized very well. Here's FTC though.

[Mark McLeod]

Here are more accurate team coordinates for cities/towns with more than one FRC team. These are generally the school locations rather than the city if it's a city with multiple teams. The exception is if a team doesn't list a school affiliation then multiple coords are just offset by a small distance.

http://www.team358.org/files/frc_rec...Teams_Ever.xls

[Andrew Schreiber]

If there is interest in seeing distribution data I created http://ewcp.org/blog/2012/01/03/FRC-...distributions/ a couple months ago (ok, about a week before kickoff). It still displays the multiple teams in one location issue but it shows the number. KML is also available on that site.

[rachelholladay]

Originally Posted by John Sabath

I could dump the KML files for those too if you'd like? Give me a bit; I'll do it right now.

EDIT: The FLL data doesn't seem to be organized very well. Here's FTC though.

Its interesting that the screentip for the FRC teams is their name but its the location for the FTC teams (or at least is the case on my GE). And actually for me GM is having trouble displaying it at all, perhaps due to size, which wouldn't be the first time. I would assume that Jr. FLL data is no better organized?

[gixxy]

I did this for all the teams in Louisiana at one point. It I find the map link I will post it when I get to a real computer. (I did it manually based on school location from the FIRST search.)

[ETGrant1649]

Originally Posted by 1986titans

This sounds a lot like WITWIF.

http://team1649.com/witwif/

Naw... WITWIF is better ;-) OK maybe I'm Partial.

[ETGrant1649]

Originally Posted by 1986titans

This sounds a lot like WITWIF.

http://team1649.com/witwif/

Just updated WITWIF to include the latest data from FIRST... Also made a special version for FLL USA events. FLL teams not available.

Added ability to link directly to an event... still working on the UI to get the link.

Check it out... http://team1649.com/witwif