Thanks Dean. That is a nice example of what can be done with
technology. I have tried something similar. I have grabbed and stored
the hybrid satellite view of Long Island, NY and then overlaid my
existing and potential yard flags with a shaded circle and those of
others known of in the area in a different color. I had tried to do it
on Google Earth but was not able to find the code to generate a circle
so I used hexagons the way cell site maps are laid down. The other
thing I wanted to do was to drive this from my own data base so that the
map was updated as the data base was updated. It doesn't appear that
you have accomplished this unless the lag is due to your checking for
spam on the entries.



I had suggested such a sharing either through our club web page or a
group under Google or Yahoo. I was surprised that many did not want to
publicize their yard locations. We are in a suburban area and I guess
they don't want too many neighbors knowing about their bees. The
commercial guys tell me they are concerned about theft and competition
for good sites but I didn't think our beekeepers would consider that a
problem. I always like to know who is keeping bees near me for disease
management reasons and even ask my honey yard owners and pollination
contract farmers if they know of anyone in the area with bees or renting
bees. I wanted to shade the circle based upon the number of hives at a
location to predict overcrowding. We have a small number of sideliners
and a lot of small hobbyist beekeepers in the LI club.



If you wouldn't mind, I'd appreciate a copy of the code you use to add
the site pin, information in the flag, and the shaded circle to the map.
The shaded circle has been my problem but I'd like to see how you did
the whole set. 35 years ago I did a lot of computer programming but
have been doing other things for too long. The computer languages that
I cut my milk teeth on are long dead. I had learned a sequence of about
six languages before I succumbed to management of others doing the code.
I don't seem to be as clever as I once thought I was.



When I have a yard, I generate a Word document that has a scanning of
the yard agreement on one side and the other side has a short summary of
information on the yard, owner, contact information, description of yard
location, a screen grab of the satellite photo of the yard property with
yard location and access path marked on it, a screen grab of the Yahoo
or Google map with driving route from home to yard, and a screen grab of
the printed driving directions. I carry a copy of these with me when
I'm servicing yards in case the owner is away and neighbors call police.
I have another copy by my wife's desk in the kitchen should she ever
need to send someone out to clean out the yards or find out why I
haven't come home from a yard run. I can also provide a copy to the
state inspector to save him a lot of trouble finding my yards. I
include the Lat/Long data for both the street exit point for the yard
and the yard location in my data base for GPS location. I'll have to
add this to my next redo of the yard sheets.





Raymond J. Lackey - Sweet Pines Apiary

Bohemia, Long Island, New York, USA 11716

web page: http://www.tianca.com/tianca2.html

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