[OGDev] Worldwide Wifi Guide

[Christopher Schmidt]

JibberJim, in #swhack[1], was wondering how easy it would be to create a
guide that aggregated all the locations with decent wifi into one place.
(seeAlso blog entry[2] on same topic.)

OpenGuides is a good software solution to this, given a few tweaks:
Specifically, tweaking the fields such that there is a city (state in
some cases) and country metadata field.

After that, an aggregator would need to be built, to allow for moving
the data that already exists in some categories on other guides (wifi,
free wifi) into the 'wifi' guide.

Implementation details are being handwaved here, in part because I'm not
the biggest master of the code -- what do other people think about this?
I think ivorw has the best knowledge of a mirroring process, I know how
to add additional metadata fields (although I'm not convinced I know the
*best* way to do it, just *a* way), and I'm sure that 'we' as the
OpenGuides team would be willing to participate in adminiship of such a
guide.

This would also be a good oppourtunity to test our aggregation ability
for the purposes of building an interface at OpenGuides.org that allows
people to search worldwide for something, rather than just in each
guide, something that I think has been discussed before.

Anyone else interested in this project?

[1] http://swhack.com/logs/2006-04-08#T12-29-37
[2] http://jibbering.com/blog/?p=505
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Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer