Thank you very very much. That was what I was looking for. But I still can’t seem to get it work correctly. It still shows Edinburgh even though my XML file gives other coordinates. I’ll look into and hopefully find a solution. My project will use the coordinates to return “news” that are closer than xxx metres from a SQL database , so not a big problem if i can’t get the map to work. I’ll give you a link if you’re interested, when its been developed a bit more.

- Christine

The contents of the php file below, as you suspect you just need to put in your own mobilesite path. Hope that helps,

Rob

< ?php
//must have the header otherwise response is not recognised as XML
header('Content-Type:text/xml');
$doc = new DOMDocument();

$doc->load( ‘https://robdunfey.mymobilesite.net/rest/presence/location’ );

$locations = $doc->getElementsByTagName( “location” );

$returndoc = new DOMDocument(‘1.0′);
// we want a nice output
$returndoc->formatOutput = true;

foreach( $locations as $location )
{
$latitudes = $location->getElementsByTagName( “latitude” );
$latitude = $latitudes->item(0)->nodeValue;

$longitudes = $location->getElementsByTagName( “longitude” );
$longitude = $longitudes->item(0)->nodeValue;

$root = $returndoc->createElement(‘location’);
$root = $returndoc->appendChild($root);

$marker = $returndoc->createElement(‘marker’);
$marker = $root->appendChild($marker);

$marker->setAttribute(“lat”, “$latitude”);
$marker->setAttribute(“lng”, “$longitude”);

//$coords = $doc->createTextNode(“$latitude, $longitude”);
//$coords = $marker->appendChild($coords);

}

echo $returndoc->saveXML() . “\n”;

?>

This is exactly what I’m working on for my master thesis. I’m focusing on journalism for mobilephones and the ability to show local news based on the users location.

What changes need to be made to your code so that I can run this on my mobile (n82)? I would like to show this as an early example of what I’m planning to do. To show people who don’t have a technology background.

- Christine

Of course by ‘cross platform’ we are now really talking ‘cross device’, this chap has done some work reverse engineering the GMM API, but I think it’s all Microsoft Smart Phone based.

I doubt any of the other ‘slippy map’ providers offer this flexibility, but I haven’t looked into it…I might try the MultiMap API?

Great example. My only complaint is that my mobile web browsers (Blackberry and Opera Mini) couldn’t view the Google Map. Any plans to provide a cross-browser example?

Phil

I plan to contact them today to see if they are happy with my use so far, or if ‘the computer’ has already issued a prohibitive levy for my experimentation?!