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wifi hotspots obtained from fon.com #80

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?
An offline implementation of http://maps.fon.com/. Fon.com is a worldwide
community with over 1.5 million users who start free to use wifi hotspots.

At http://maps.fon.com/ one can already download all hotspot locations in
various formats (KML, CVS, GPX, OV2), an overlay with google maps would be
very need to get online again.

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?
Goal would be to find wifi hotspots to get online.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by ronald....@gmail.com on 29 Aug 2009 at 5:52

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Very KOOOL feature!!
we already have a request to read from ".kml" files It will be great to 
complete both 
in at once.

Original comment by heldersepu on 29 Aug 2009 at 6:21

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Original comment by heldersepu on 14 Sep 2009 at 12:58

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Original comment by heldersepu on 14 Sep 2009 at 12:59

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Original comment by heldersepu on 8 Nov 2009 at 6:46

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Original comment by heldersepu on 8 Dec 2009 at 3:18

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I just finish Issue 65 (Import markers from KML file) and wanted to look at 
this one, 
the KML files can be downloaded from:

http://maps.fon.com/pois/FON_UK.kml
http://maps.fon.com/pois/FON_US.kml

Original comment by heldersepu on 30 Dec 2009 at 2:27

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
The KML files are a lot bigger than the CSV
FON_US.csv = 152 KB (155,890 bytes)
FON_US.kml = 1.39 MB (1,467,953 bytes)

The CSV format might be a better idea
http://maps.fon.com/pois/FON_US.csv

Original comment by heldersepu on 30 Dec 2009 at 2:31

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Some good info reading CSV files: 
http://docs.python.org/library/csv.html#csv.reader

Original comment by heldersepu on 30 Dec 2009 at 2:53

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Original comment by heldersepu on 30 Dec 2009 at 5:36

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Original comment by heldersepu on 17 Apr 2010 at 2:06

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
it's better to add a marker layers and on/off capability. so user can create or 
convert such sources to catcher's marker file format and enable it on demand.

Original comment by pokr...@gmail.com on 5 Aug 2010 at 3:35

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I think you can easily add the KML, Shapefiel (SHP) and even Spatialite in the 
next release using:

1. Fwtools - org2org - Converts various geo spatial file formats.
http://fwtools.maptools.org/

2. GDAL/OGR
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/GDAL/

3.CSV to KML
http://code.google.com/apis/kml/articles/csvtokml.html

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/SummerOfCode

3. libkml
http://code.google.com/p/libkml/
http://code.google.com/p/libkml/wiki/UserGuide12x

4. PIL and GDAL can get along together

https://secure.mysociety.org/cvstrac/fileview?f=mysociety/iso/tiles/tilecache-2.
10/TileCache/Layers/GDAL.py&v=1.1

Original comment by nsi...@gmail.com on 21 Aug 2010 at 12:46

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Original comment by heldersepu on 29 Sep 2012 at 12:05