+3Hi,
I want to produce some points on a map (writing into a TAB file) based on the lat and lon location which is buried in the source code of a web page.
e.g. www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-2634447449/contact
Does anyone know if this doable using Desktop?
Cheers,
Jake
+19Hi, Dont know if you can get to the coordinates, alternatively you can try to parse the HTML and get the address for geocoding.
+62Yes, that's possible. I checked the source of that page and noticed a set of lat/lon coordinates in one of the header lines:
<script>jQuery.extend(Drupal.settings, {"basePath":"\/","pathPrefix":"","cqc_data_contact":{"lat":"53.7226304","lon":"-1.8862726","location_address":"Gibbet Street,\u003Cbr \And that appears to be JSON, which is a format that FME can handle!
So I set up a workspace to read the .html file as a text file, then filter out that line using a StringSearcher, clean it up a bit in order to isolate just the JSON content, run it through a JSONFragmenter and have it expose the attributes lat and lon, then create a point out of that.
You probably need some more work to output useful attributes, but the basics (scraping the lat/lon from the html code and creating a point) are there. Hope this helps.
+19Yes, that's possible. I checked the source of that page and noticed a set of lat/lon coordinates in one of the header lines:
<script>jQuery.extend(Drupal.settings, {"basePath":"\/","pathPrefix":"","cqc_data_contact":{"lat":"53.7226304","lon":"-1.8862726","location_address":"Gibbet Street,\u003Cbr \And that appears to be JSON, which is a format that FME can handle!
So I set up a workspace to read the .html file as a text file, then filter out that line using a StringSearcher, clean it up a bit in order to isolate just the JSON content, run it through a JSONFragmenter and have it expose the attributes lat and lon, then create a point out of that.
You probably need some more work to output useful attributes, but the basics (scraping the lat/lon from the html code and creating a point) are there. Hope this helps.
nice one @redgeographics, completly missed out the coords.