Topic: Bing Maps radar page

[oh65WX]

@the beteljuice,

Thanks for the time positioning help, great addition.  From what I can see, Bing Maps must not care about the authorization key anymore?  They ask for the url of the map it'll be used on, so one would expect that would be coded into the key.

- Jim

It doesn't  need the key do work at all, but it charges the hits to the account associated with the key, (mine).  Please just delete it out of the file.  It's in two places.  I assume that you could use the map indefinitely without it.  Especially for non-com usage.

Scott

[Bunty]

But mine has an old problem in which the drop down menus disappear behind the map.  Is there a easy trick to fix this?  This didn't work:

 #menu {
  position: relative;
  z-index: -9999;
}

https://stillwaterweather.com/newwxradar

[the beteljuice]

z-index 9999 (positive)

[Bunty]

Thank you, but sorry that didn't work positioned in css as such:

#menu {
  position: relative;
  z-index: -9999;
}
#menu{width:1005px;height:48px;background:#000;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;z-index:9999;}
#menu ul{margin:0;padding:0;list-style:none;white-space:nowrap;text-align:left;}
#menu ul{float:left;}
#menu li{display:inline-block;display:inline;}
#menu ul ul{position:absolute;display:none;left:0;top:36px;border:1px solid #aaa;}
#menu ul.level1 li.level1-li{float:left;display:block;position:relative;}
#menu ul{background:#000;}
#menu span,............and so on.

I'll probably have to shorten the drop down menus for that page only.  Or try another menu.  Or try putting it on a new saratoga page.

[the beteljuice]

Hmm .. you have z-index in two places.
This one is still negative.

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#menu {
  position: relative;
  z-index: -9999;
}You should be able to experiment by going into "developer" in your browser and edit the CSS style.

[the beteljuice]

@Bunty ...

OK - you've removed the other (#menu) z-index entry, but the first entry is still -9999

60's speak - stop it with the negativity man 

[Bunty]

I soon gave up with z-index, and it occurred to me to try switching from a black to white background.  It worked!  Thanks.  However, I think I'd sooner have "Stillwater" than the "Here I am" marker, like on a previous version. 

https://stillwaterweather.com/newwxradar

[the beteljuice]

You can change the mouse-over text, or not have the marker at all.
They are user variables.

[weathergirl]

Do I require a Bing Key to use this?

[the beteljuice]

None of the offerings require a 'key' - if you do use the Bing map version see post top of this page.

[Silversword]

Hi All,

Anyone put this Bing radar map on wxxxxx.php format? If so, can you share the script?

Aloha,

--Stan Y.
   Maui, Hawaii

[ed_heaton]

I'd be interested in that too Stan!

[jmcmurry]

Anyone put this Bing radar map on wxxxxx.php format? If so, can you share the script?

This is something that you  can easily do yourself.  The set of pages that you downloaded for your site likely had  a page named "wxtemplate" or similar that has all of the standard things in it and only lacks the meat of the page.  Make a copy of that and add the map css and javascript to the head section, and body code from one of the examples.  You can obtain this code by right clicking on an example map then "view source".

If you don't have a template page it would be good to create one.  Take one of your site pages, strip the body code out and save for use some other day.

- Jim

[ed_heaton]

Thanks Jim and I got it    I'm not a programmer so I was excited (lol)