Hello Jean-luc,
Thank you for posting this! If there's a way to get the ‡ character instead
of the data-synching $ sign I'd be golden, if for no other reason than to
make the copy/paste into OCLC Connexion smoother. Very easy to use your app!

$4,000 isn't likely to make any company too vested in maintaining the
feature. I could be wrong but my gut tells me we'd be paying the fee on the
regular every time the API breaks for each *raison du jour* (if I didn't
completely mangle the French there)

Craig

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On Mon, Dec 6, 2021 at 2:43 PM ARNAUD Jean-luc <[log in to unmask]>
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> To maps catalogers interested in bounding box generator
>
>
> I just read your post about  the issue related to the modification of the
> Google API for the operation of Klokan Bounding Boxes.
>
>     We had the same problem with Google for the CartoMundi interface
> several years ago. Google often changes its API without notifying users
> and each change is likely to require adjustment of the services that use
> Google maps. That is to say that paying an upgrading to Klokan is not a
> perennial solution.
>
>
>        In the context of renewing CartoMundi, we developped recently a
> sotware that can help you to generate the 034 $d to g zones. It’s based
> on Open Street Maps and its use is for free. This tool has been deveopped
> by our computer scientist – Romain Suarez -, that is to say we are able to
> improve it if necessary. Initially it has been set up to generate
> georeferenced sheet indexes but it can also been used for bounding boxes.
> Unfortunately the interface and tutorials are in french but anyone can
> operate very easily, particulerly to create bounding boxes.
>
>
>
> It’s name is PeriCart. The link is : https://pericart.mmsh.fr/
>
> This page opens a screen conposed by two windows. On the left is the OSM
> planisphere one can move and zoom to get more or less precision; on the
> right are several tabs. The page opens on the main one *Outils* (Tools),
> on the top right, is the rectangal tool to draw a bounding box on the
> planisphere.
>
> To get the corresponding coordinates :
>
> 1. Click on the tab « Outils « (that closes the tab).
>
> 2. Click on the tab « Coordonnées » (that opens the tab)
>
> 3. Click on the button « Unimarc 123 » (that opens a box with the
> coordinates you can copy)
>
> Coordinates are DMS formated for Unimarc, but it is easy to add a new
> button « Marc21_034 », that displays the coordinates in decimal format.
>
>
>
> To help the creation of the bounding box for maps that are not based on
> Greenwich meridian, the tab « Coordonnées », proposes a long list of
> meridians for different countries, the selection of a meridian changes the
> grid and the coordinates on the map. This list can easily be completed.
>
>
>
> Let us know if you could be interested
>
>
>
> Jean-Luc Arnaud / [log in to unmask]
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> Romain Suarez / [log in to unmask]
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