map display as switches

[daveTW]

OK, I forgot to make the values of FP controls default, so it will be more difficult to test the VI I attached in the previous post.

This is the the VI with reasonable values set and btw I altered the Input data format a bit.

greets, Dave

[mikealder]

Many thanks for all the replies and the time taken to post example code, it really has been appreciated. The application I am coding is of personal interest rather than a true deliverable, but its been interesting along the way - defining the County boundries as numeric arrays took a few hours! but these had to be accurate in Lat/ Long format.

In the end I chose to use the mutli coloured map and the Mouse Move event rather than Mouse Down, this works great. I also used the "InROI.vi" within the application to sort through thousands of locations and distribute them to reside within their specific counties - I had found this vi a few weeks ago while searching the forum and had this part working very well.

So what does this little application do - it counts up Speed Camera locations in the UK offering statistics for each county, a strange thing to want to do, see the attached image (sorry about the size as I use a large monitor when running this! Next I will colour code the dots to diferentiate between the different types of camera! - Thanks all - Mike

[TCPlomp]

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mike alder wrote:

Many thanks for all the replies and the time taken to post example code, it really has been appreciated. The application I am coding is of personal interest rather than a true deliverable, but its been interesting along the way -

- Mike

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I always think such projects are very good for your skills, better than homework!

Good luck,

Ton

[Ben]

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TonP wrote:

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mike alder wrote:

Many thanks for all the replies and the time taken to post example code, it really has been appreciated. The application I am coding is of personal interest rather than a true deliverable, but its been interesting along the way -

- Mike

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I always think such projects are very good for your skills, better than homework!

Good luck,

Ton

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Ditto That!

Some of my best code was developed in my basement as an experiment to see if I could do it. The hard part comes latter when I have try and figure out how I will squeeze that new idea into an application, just "because I can"*.

Ben

* I believe it was Jeff Goldbloom's character in Jurasic Park that quiped "Often people are so wrapped up asking  'could we do something' but fail to stop and ask 'should we do something?' ."

[tst]

Mike, after you finish the VI, you should hook it up to a GPS unit and run it on a laptop to provide alerts before you reach the cameras. You can then send it to Top Gear. I'm sure they'll like it. 🙂

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Ben wrote:

* I believe it was Jeff Goldbloom's character in Jurasic Park that quiped "Often people are so wrapped up asking  'could we do something' but fail to stop and ask 'should we do something?' ."

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It was.

[mikealder]

I use a PDA with Labview running on it from time to time for mobile GPS applications although the car is equipped with three roof mounted GPS receivers and a built in PC so a warning system could be coded up quite easily - Mike