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Subject:    visualisation of postal codes in marble shape via plugin?
From:       "Stephan Wassipaul" <wassipaul () gmx ! at>
Date:       2008-09-03 15:04:44
Message-ID: 20080903150444.155410 () gmx ! net
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Hey,

I'd like to visualize (austrian) postal codes (which are stored in a spread sheet) on \
a map. So after some googling and finding out that I'd probably need to convert them \
to coordinates (which should be possible using the database from \
http://opengeodb.hoppe-media.com/index.php?FrontPage, although the site looks kind of \
outdated...), the koffice marble flake came to my mind. Ideally, I'd like to select a \
column of names, a column of phone numbers and a column of postal codes and then just \
run plugins -> visualise on a map. Now my question ist the following: Would it be \
possible to achieve my goal by writing a plugin taking advantge of the koffice \
architecture?

If so, what exactly would be needed (sorry, I know the koffice architecture only from \
blog posts) and which programming language could I use?

The problem is that I'm not a real programmer, only familiar with python (and a \
little bit php), but I could probably learn an other programming language pretty \
quickly as long as it's a scripting language. If the above is only doable using a \
non-scripting language, it won't be worth the effort (it's nothing really urgent, \
only nice to have), so that's why I'm asking here before digging deeper into the \
documentation... Also, I'm using Kubuntu 8.04 (still the KDE 3 version), so getting \
the current alpha up and running would be quite an effort (at least for me, I only \
switched to linux about a year ago, never compiled anything, never altered my \
/etc/apt/sources.list etc.), so I'd like to be sure that what I'm striving for is \
doable...

If something of the above is unclear (which is easily possible since english is not \
my native language) or if you need further informations in order to be able to answer \
my question, please don't hesitate to contact me - I promise I'll write back as soon \
as possible.

Thank you very much in advance for your efforts and for doing an impressive job on \
coding koffice!

Best regards,
Stephan Wassipaul

PS: In case you're wondering why I'd want to do that: I'm a volunteer of AFS which is \
non-profit organization organising student exchanges. Being able to visualize postal \
codes would be handy for all kinds of things, e.g. when you need to find volunteers \
living close to a certain host family... (we assert a volunteer - serving as a \
                contact person - to every exchange student).
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