Missile Range Map Tool

Iran missiles launched during military exercises, 2009

In the last few years, missiles and launch systems have become the new bargaining chip in international diplomacy.
Unfortunately, some can actually deliver nuclear weapons straight to your door.

The long-awaited companion to Ground Zero, this application maps the potential range of modern and historical ballistic and artillery weapons

Select a weapon from the list and the map will be updated to show the potential launch location.

You can also select a weapon and enter an address, if you want to see a map of the range from the new location.
Additional weapon ranges can be clicked on the map -very handy to see how far can North Korea or Iran threaten other countries.

About the Missile Range Map Tool

  • This is a client-server application: the Missile Range Map Tool was created as part of a demonstration on the use of server frameworks and interaction with Javascript and Google's Maps API.
  • It uses a mySQL database backend (where the missile data, locations and coordinates are stored) and the superlative Code Igniter PHP framework in the server (for processing and control), with Javascript at the client end. And, of course, Google, somewhere in the cloud.
  • It is free to use and you can download the ZIP package too. Use it, mash it up, give it away - provided you keep the headers in the source code, it's all yours.

    Copy and paste the following to mashup the application into your own website or blog:

  • Regretfully, we cannot support the downloading and install of the server component of the application - you are on your own. Which is a very good thing indeed.
Disclaimer: This code is posted "as is", with a Creative Commons license and neither Carlos Labs nor any of its representatives guarantee the suitability of this script, or assume any responsibility for your actions.

This script is free to use on any software project, free or otherwise, provided you credit Carlos Labs and you do not remove the header in the script.

Project: 201001A

 

Comments

Wed, 05/12/2010 - 11:06 — Anonymous

realmente muy bueno. Pena que

realmente muy bueno.
Pena que no esten los de los paises occidentales "civilizados"

Fri, 05/14/2010 - 11:46 — carlos

Los misiles civilizados

Muchas gracias por el comentario - nos alegra saber que el lector hispanoparlante tambien disfruta de nuestros mapas.

Vamos a implementar sistemas de lanzamiento de misiles para los paises occidentales - todo es cuestion de organizar tiempo para actualizar la base de datos.

No creemos que los misiles de Occidente sean menos peligrosos para la humanidad. Al contrario -estos son los peores. Pero con la situacion mundial en la actualidad, estimamos que el Medio Oriente es el principal usuario, en cuanto a misiles se refiere.

saludos,

: carloslabs :

Sun, 03/28/2010 - 02:44 — Anonymous

Good stuff

These are pretty awesome. Is there any chance of them being updated? Like different yields in the Ground Zero app. More missiles for more countries in the missile Range Map Tool. I would like to see missiles for Great Britain, Canada, Israel, Russia, United States.

Wed, 03/31/2010 - 14:20 — carlos

ICBMs and Yields

We are continuously including new missiles in our application -you'll be surprised at what you will find in the future.

On the other hand, the yields for weapons in the "Ground Zero" apps are going to remain pretty much as they are at the moment - we decided not to complicate the UI for the application with too many weapons in similar categories - eventually we settled on a mix of "orders of magnitude and historical relevance".

thanks for visiting,

::carloslabs::

Sun, 01/24/2010 - 09:42 — Anonymous

Good work!

Nice little app, Carlos! Well done again.

Sun, 01/24/2010 - 14:03 — carlos

thanks !

it was long in the making - as usual, work got in the way - thanks for the encouragement

CM