Re: [Orgmode] Advice needed. Use links or blocks?

[Sebastian Rose]

Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:
> Sebastian Rose <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>
>> the attached file fetches background tiles from openstreetmap.org for
>> me, and produces SVG images of tracks I ran.  Unfortunately, I cannot
>> find a good way to use that code in an automated way.
>> 
>> What I'd like to do, is to have the coords in my training diary, and
>> produce the images on demand.  When I publish the diary to HTML, I want
>> the coords to be replaced with a link to the image.
>> 
>> Here is an example of the coords (just two), as I save them in my diary:
>> 
>>  '((9.707136154065665 52.3705158282501)(9.711406230817374 52.37525815071791))
>> 
>> 
>> And this is, how the function to produce the images is used:
>> 
>>   (osm-draw-track
>>    ;; Fantasy-track in Brisbane:
>>    '((152.968 -27.533) (152.968 -27.546) (152.974 -27.537))
>>    "Track_in_Brisbane"
>>    8)
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Should I go for a special link type:
>> 
>> [[track:((152.968 -27.533) (152.968 -27.546))][2010-09-03 in Brisbane]]
>> 
>> ??
>> 
>> 
>> Right now, I produce a lisp file, that produces all those images using
>> `osm-draw-tracks' and add simple links.  But this is inconvenient and
>> prone to error (forgotten tracks)...
>> 
>
> Very cool indeed. I am certainly not an expert but I thought I'd remind you
> of a vaguely similar idea that Julien Danjou implemented with his
> org-location-google-maps.el: he stores the location in the LOCATION property
> of an entry.
>
> Maybe a TRACK property, possibly accompanied by an ID that will link to
> the SVG as an attachment and act as a cache? And other fields can be added
> at will (name, date, completion time, amount of water drunk :-) etc.)


I have those kind of properties.  Start-time, pace, etc.

But I was hoping to make it usefull for other purposes, too.  One could
have more than just one track in a section.  E.g. one for the warm-up,
one for the competition.


Actually, I'd like to click somewhere and see the track in an extra
frame.  In Emacs and in my Browser.  That's why I was thinking about
links.


As I look into `C-h f org-add-link-type' I guess links are indeed the
way to go.




BTW: I like OSM better, because it includes cycling paths and stuff like
that as well as more detail in general (phone boths, stores etc.).  For
runners, google maps are useless.



  Sebastian