Re: [Tsp-devel] TSP GoogleEarth Writer

[Frederik Deweerdt]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 07:47:00PM +0100, Stephane GALLES wrote:
> Frederik Deweerdt wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:43:29AM +0100, Yves DUF wrote:
> >> I've tried it, and it more or less a failure :
> >> The KML files used to describe the path need to be finished and complete
> >> (XML tags must be closed) .
> >> So I can convert a plane trajectory and give it to GoogleEarth, but I can
> >> use it as a real_time display.
> > http://earth.google.com/kml/kml_tut.html#network_links
> > (Search for 'View-Based Refresh Queries')
> >>From what I could understand, your KML file needs to be static, but you
> > can have NetworkLink tags at will, and these tags can get their content
> > from a CGI script running on whatever webserver. So basically, that seems
> > doable:
> > |KML file| -> |NeworkLink| <-refresh KML content-> |CGI script / TSP 
> > consumer| -> |TSP provider|
> 
> I don't know anything about NetworkLink, but if the scheme you describe
> works, instead of a CGI script it could be even easier to do this with
> the Ruby TSP lib + Ruby on Rails for the web page  ;)
> 
Definitely, this would be waaay more elegant :)