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| Events now showing ONLY Collier County FL. What a trick that was!NOTE: You can see the results of my hard work here: http://free.naplesplus.us/articles/view.php/44087/map-of-naples-florida-daily-events
(notice how the events STOP right at the border of North Naples + Bonita Springs.)
March 24, 2009: Wow to me! I figured out how to show ONLY Collier County events on the calendar. You think that'd be easy, right? It's not! GEOCODING street addresses is SUCH at its infancy right now.
When I put together the events feeds (which come from a dozen different, convoluted places and ways and methods that I'm afraid to get into right now), I often will get stuff from Estero, Ft Myers, Bonita Springs, etc as well. While it'd be okay if there were a map that had those things on it, I'm really trying to focus hard on Collier County FL as much as possible, rather than trying to be everything for everybody.
So, after getting the latitude and longitude of the various events (again, you don't wanna know what a house of cards it is that it works at ALL), THEN I had to selectly CUT OUT areas that don't belong.
THANKFULLY, due to two wonderful facts, I could do what I ended up doing:
Fact #1: Collier County is so far south, I don't have to worry about anything south of collier accidentally showing up.
Fact #2: The SHAPE of collier county! Ever look at it? There's two beautiful rectangles that I can work with.
So, I ended up:
a) cutting out anything north + east of the northeasternest corner of collier county b) then cutting out anything north and east of the inside corner of the first rectangle (working from east to west c) then cutting out anything north and east of the other inside corner of the next rectangle.
Long story short, what's left behind is ONLY Collier County!
Without the wonderful shape of C.C., this would not have worked. But it does! The hardest part really, was finding out what the longitude and latitude was of those exact points where Lee + Collier connect.
Had to use a federal government mapping thing called TIGER. Wonderful thing.
Hope it helps you find things to do 'round here every day!
(p.s. - I would have kept bonita, estero, cape coral, etc, but there are just TOO MANY THINGS going on in our county to show everything in swfla.) | | |
| Setup Blogged.com "Kenneth U."Man, I thought I'd never get it working! Just spent the last hour working on getting blogged.com to recognize my xanga site.
What was the trouble? Simple! I had signed up to Xanga using an ancient email address, so it decided to create a NEW account for me on blogged, when I already had one.
The answer? Turned out to be simple.
Just zap the blog from the "new" account, change the email on Xanga to the proper one, and "Claim your Blog" again.
Hope this Helps somebody out there!
Kenneth Udut, Naples, FL.
Webmaster of Naples Plus
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| Merry Christmas - new things happening to naplesplus (Naples, FL)MERRY CHRISTMAS, NAPLES FLORIDA AND ALL COLLIER COUNTY!
Added almost 1000 new Naples Florida businesses, 1200 native + non-native
Collier County plants in the new Collier County Plant directory, colier
county schools information and more!
Just letting y'all know that that a bunch of new stuff showing up on
naplesplus. COLLIER COUNTY PLANTS
is brand new! Includes
every native and non-native plant found in Collier County Florida that I
could find. Most have pictures.
http://free.naplesplus.us/sections/view.php/44/collier-county-schools - Most
Collier County FL schools are added with their own pages and links to their
main pages.
http://free.naplesplus.us/sections/view.php/140/collier-county-physician-dir
ectory - 1200 doctors added to naplesplus, each with their own pages.
The business directories keep getting updated. Business Directory
has about 1000 new collier
county businesses in the from the last few months (Business is booming in
Naples believe it or not!), and there is a new Physician directory there
with so many doctors listed, I can't even count!
Hope y'all find it useful!
Ken, founder of naplesplus. Posted via email from simplify3's posterous | | |
| Google Friend Connect is now in a limited testing phase - and naplesplus is a part of it!Google Friend Connect, the up and coming social networking service that will connect various and sundry websites together with a common social networking platform, is now White Listing a number of websites to be a part of their continuing testing phase.
My little Naples, FL website, http://free.naplesplus.us
is now a part of the Google Friend Connect testing phase. Come on by and if you look to the left panel of the site, about half way down, you'll see a Google Friend Connect thing. (it says "Google members"). From there, you can join Google Friend Connect, use your Plaxo or Orkut or Google profiles, and set up a new type of presence on the Internet, one that will eventually link everything together.
You'll be able to find your friends, see what websites they're into, hook together in a way never possible before. This is just the beginning stages of the process - the first teetering steps towards a very large and very necessary evolution in social networking -- meta social networking that spans across multiple websites. MyBlogLog has come close to this goal, but hasn't quite reached it yet. Google will do it right. They may be the 800-lb Gorilla, but that's why it's good to be on their side 
Kenneth Udut, webmaster of http://free.naplesplus.us - Collier County FL - Naples FL News, Jobs, For Sale, Business Directory, Blogs
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