Le Tour de France map

[hushovd]

Hi guys,

just found the forum and i see now were all those nice maps come from.

Maybe time is short but in a few months on of the biggest and oldest ( not the oldest ) sport events is starting again in France...Le Tour.

A map with start and finish places, bonusses if held a shirt ( yersey??) , green for holding a few sprint finish places, red dot yersey if held some finish places in the mountains, etc...There can be bonusses underway too.

The build up can be like the american highway maps .

Maybe ( with help ive never done this before ) i can help with the layout?

greetz Hus

[natty dread]

There's the issue of copyright... so if you make the map you need to call it something other than "Le Tour".

It's not a bad idea though. It could be a decent map, if executed properly. How about drawing a simple draft, even in MS paint if you can't operate any heavy graphics machinery?

[theBastard]

agree with natty in all points...

[DarthFrog]

There's the issue of copyright... so if you make the map you need to call it something other than "Le Tour".

"Le Tour" is not copyrighted. It's "Le Tour de France" as a whole that would be copyright. Other than that, you can call it "Le Tour de Conquer" or something similar. We have a cycling event called "Le Tour de PEI" in my province, and there's not copyright issues

[natty dread]

There's the issue of copyright... so if you make the map you need to call it something other than "Le Tour".

"Le Tour" is not copyrighted. It's "Le Tour de France" as a whole that would be copyright. Other than that, you can call it "Le Tour de Conquer" or something similar. We have a cycling event called "Le Tour de PEI" in my province, and there's not copyright issues

Yeah, go with Le Tour de Whatever.

[hushovd]

There's the issue of copyright... so if you make the map you need to call it something other than "Le Tour".

It's not a bad idea though. It could be a decent map, if executed properly. How about drawing a simple draft, even in MS paint if you can't operate any heavy graphics machinery?

So If i upload ( to where ?? ) a picture of the map , even in its simplest form , one migth consider of working it out ??

[Riskismy]

You need to make an account in some file service such as photobucket. Then you use the [bigimg] tag to insert your image into the post you make here. The magic of the internet will take care of the rest if you use the right URL in the tag ('Direct link' in photobucket).

Yes, I think we can work it out - but realize that really means that you will be working it out

[hushovd]

i can make a image, and i can make a plan how i think it should work, but i cant write database etc to program the map. That is what i mean with 'we' can work it out

[Riskismy]

If we get to the point of XML, I promise I'll do that bit. np.