Houses in Highland Park

These pictures are here as a drop off point to support the google map I created to document significant houses in the neighborhood. The google map is also proxied through Hoopala so that the point locations are caught in the Augmented Reality Application Layar - search for highland in the Layar application for the iPhone or android and if you are in the neighborhood.


View Historic Highland Park San Antonio Homes in a larger map


1142 Highland Park San Antonio Texas

1702 McKinley, San Antonio Texas


James J. Jordan House
1510 Highland Boulevard
Jordan-Ivers Motor Company of San Antonio
Ford and Lincoln Dealers
1924 dealership location on corner of S. Alamo and Garden Street




Bert J. McLean House
City Editor of the San Antonio Light
Mrs. Bert J. McLean was the daughter of Mrs. A Vinz from Camp Douglas Wisconsin
a member of Highland Park Presbyterian Church
1915 Schley



H.C. Teich House
1014 Avant
He was a member of the Retail Merchants Association of Texas
In 1924 He owned a shop specializing in vulcanizing and retreading on 907 East Houston
Street
The couple had a baby boy was born on Sept 13


1026 Avant
Documented in Express News March 29, 1925 with photos






1426 Hicks
March 31 1929 Express News

Screen Overlays In Google Maps

I have been playing around with screen overlays as a method of dealing with legends and branding. I found that My Maps does not support the kml elements you need for screen overlays or folders, but it is possibe to have an server host the kml files with the tag and the tag. Because I am cheap, I use google sites to hold all my files. I offload my kml and images on the files of a bogus endpoint I create in mySites.

you can offload your mayMap kml file by adding &output=kml to the http call on the page that shows your map.

I used this sample file I found on the google map forum. And used it as a template for the asian_overlay kml file.



I edited and reset the namespace and the tags from my My Maps kml .. and added folders too cuz I thought it made the map more comprehensible. I used a standard text editor to add the elements.

old namespace:
<xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0">

new namespace:
<kml xmlns="http://www.opengis.net/kml/2.2">

and I threw in an atom tag for good measure:

<atom:author>
<atom:name>myName</atom:name>
<atom:author>
< atom:link href="http://www.mysite.org" >

In the screen overlay entry I pointed to a png file I wanted to use.

<Folder>
<name>ScreenOverlays</name>
<open>0</open>
<ScreenOverlay>
<name>screenoverlay_absolute_bottomright</name>
<visibility>0</visibility>
<Icon>
<href>http://sites.google.com/site/mapsofoldsanantonio/files/nowcast_2010_logo.png</href>
</Icon>
<overlayXY x="0" y="-1" xunits="fraction" yunits="fraction"/>
<screenXY x="0" y="0" xunits="fraction" yunits="fraction"/>
<rotationXY x="0" y="0" xunits="fraction" yunits="fraction"/>
<size x="0" y="0" xunits="fraction" yunits="fraction"/>
</ScreenOverlay>
</Folder>


Once the files were uploaded to mysite. I created a url based on the template:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=http%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fsite%2Fmapsofoldsanantonio%2F%2Ffiles%2Fasian_overlay.kml&ie=UTF8&ll=29.4916,-98.5011&sspn=29.5301,29.4027,-98.3586,-98.6563&z=10&om=1

where the sspan parameters are in the following order:
newGLatLng(map.getBounds().getNorthEast().lat() − map.getBounds().getSouthWest().lat(),map.getBounds().getNorthEast().lng() − map.getBounds().getSouthWest().lng()).toUrlValue()

the %2F is actually an escape code for a / .. so this would be the html path to your new and shiny kml file. From here you can grab a link or the embed code and you are off to the races.

Some elements may need tweaking: the ll and spn elements may need tweaking on your embed to center on the elements you wish to capture on the map.




View Larger Map The nowcast gif is gone -- a reorganization of hosting