[Therion] Database use

[Ladislav Blažek]

 On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 18:37:19 +0000, Andrew Atkinson 
 <andrew at wotcc.org.uk> wrote:
> I personally do not think in feet.
> (Britain officially became metric the year I was born!!!! Granted it
> is hard to tell. (The currency got done at least) It was the 1884
> Meridian conference that Britain agreed to go metric if Greenwich was
> the Meridian instead of France, or so the rumours go..... Printed in 
> a
> UK maths text book so must be true, I get away from the point)
>
> At the moment the search returns what is in the database, no mention
> of units, as I was not sure if every database would be in metre, or 
> if
> you used feet it would be feet.
> Same for grads and other units of angle, although this is changeable
> in the config. What I need to know, and the information is probably 
> in
> the documentation somewhere, is if the default units are degrees and
> metre, if not what the options are.

 AFAIK default units are degrees and metres but can be set in 
 survey/layout/ini file...

> I will add feet, should not be too difficult, after I have got
> searches by name to work at a realistic speed
>
> Andrew
>
> On 10/01/11 18:10, Martin Sluka wrote:
>> Nice work, Andrew. Please, add the units (I know you think in feets) 
>> :)
>>
>> m.
>>
>>
>> On 10.1.2011, at 17:59, Andrew Atkinson wrote:
>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> Well Bruce you spurred me into action, and I have produced some web
>>> pages, that allow users to search the database.
>>>
>>> It can be a little slow, especially the passage height query. Even 
>>> the
>>> form is slow to load, and no indication is given that it is 
>>> working.
>>> Finding the heights are quite quick it is the checking to see if 
>>> they
>>> are underground that take the time, oh well probably can be 
>>> optimised,
>>> but someone better than me.
>>>
>>> It is set up so that more searches can be easily added.
>>>
>>> Known problems
>>>
>>> Passage height gives meaningless results if one or both of the 
>>> heights
>>> given are between the min and max.
>>> AJAX menu does not work on all browsers.
>>>
>>> Which brings me back to the where this all started, it would be 
>>> more
>>> user-friendly to do searches on passage names as people call them. 
>>> IE
>>> how long is 'Route 66' Currently to do this they would have to know
>>> that 'Route 66' was made up of the second half of Diesel Duck plus
>>> Onion and the first half of 'hall of time'. The first and last of
>>> these is not searchable?
>>>
>>> Have a look at
>>>
>>> http://wotcc.org.uk/Cheddar/
>>>
>>> (the style is stolen from ubss.org.uk)
>>>
>>> If people think that it is useful, I'll add the code to the wiki, 
>>> you
>>> should be able to edit the config file and it should then drop in 
>>> to
>>> any site. Extra Searches can be added to the Searches Directory, so 
>>> it
>>> should be adaptable.
>>>
>>> Works with mySQL.
>>>
>>> Andrew
>>>
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