Release: KML Support, Rails 1.2.3
Howdy, Spotstorians! We did a major system update on April 24, 2007 around 11:45 ET. We hope you enjoy. This release contains:
- KML support See your Spots in Google Maps and Google Earth!
- Rails 1.2.3 We’ve updated to the latest and greatest Rails!
- Bug fixes Always some bug fixes for you!
KML
You can now view your Spots using either Google Earth or Google Maps. There are a couple of ways to do this.
Google Maps
Currently, the only way to see a Spot is to provide a URL in the search box. When Google has crawled the site (the next day or so), you’ll be able to find your Spot in the Google search results.
To see your Spot right now, go to a Spot, take its URL, copy it into the Google Maps search box, and append the suffix “kml” onto it like so:
http://www.spotstory.com/spots/show/120.kml
To see what this looks like, just click here.
As I mentioned, Google hasn’t sucked our KML into their index yet, but when they do, you should start seeing your Spots appear in Google Maps under the “See user-created content” link at the bottom of the left-hand side of the page.
We’ll let you know when this happens.
Google Earth
To see your spots on Google Earth, you can go to the Spot, and click on the “KML” link under the map. If you have Google Earth installed, it should load automatically. (If you don’t have Google Earth installed you can can download it from here.)
You can also right-click to save the content to disk, and load it into Google Earth from there.
Rails 1.2.3
This isn’t a change you’ll notice, but we get a lot of traffic from the Ruby on Rails community, so we thought it made sense to mention that our production environment is now using Rails 1.2.3. For details, you can see Aron’s great post about his Rails 1.2.3 upgrade travails.
Thank You!
That’s all for this update. Please let us know if you find any problems.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the site either with content, comments, or attention!
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Release: KML Support, Rails 1.2.3
Howdy, Spotstorians! We did a major system update on April 24, 2007 around 11:45 ET. We hope you enjoy. This release contains:
- KML support See your Spots in Google Maps and Google Earth!
- Rails 1.2.3 We’ve updated to the latest and greatest Rails!
- Bug fixes Always some bug fixes for you!
KML
You can now view your Spots using either Google Earth or Google Maps. There are a couple of ways to do this.
Google Maps
Currently, the only way to see a Spot is to provide a URL in the search box. When Google has crawled the site (the next day or so), you’ll be able to find your Spot in the Google search results.
To see your Spot right now, go to a Spot, take its URL, copy it into the Google Maps search box, and append the suffix “kml” onto it like so:
http://www.spotstory.com/spots/show/120.kml
To see what this looks like, just click here.
As I mentioned, Google hasn’t sucked our KML into their index yet, but when they do, you should start seeing your Spots appear in Google Maps under the “See user-created content” link at the bottom of the left-hand side of the page.
We’ll let you know when this happens.
Google Earth
To see your spots on Google Earth, you can go to the Spot, and click on the “KML” link under the map. If you have Google Earth installed, it should load automatically. (If you don’t have Google Earth installed you can can download it from here.)
You can also right-click to save the content to disk, and load it into Google Earth from there.
Rails 1.2.3
This isn’t a change you’ll notice, but we get a lot of traffic from the Ruby on Rails community, so we thought it made sense to mention that our production environment is now using Rails 1.2.3. For details, you can see Aron’s great post about his Rails 1.2.3 upgrade travails.
Thank You!
That’s all for this update. Please let us know if you find any problems.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed to the site either with content, comments, or attention!
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