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> We're having a hackfest some time in the new year, though, and I will
> try and make this a priority, as a single point of entry/search for
> OpenGuides is indeed quite important.
Excellent :) It is quite a change from the distributed approach you've
taken so far.
> We tend to export mostly in RDF format with geo namespaces; is this
> likely to be useful? (see the RDF format search on one of the existing
> guides for an example).
RDF sounds fine (XML format), what about the return path, say you've got
WhereAmI (my app) on your phone, you've identified your location with
GPS or GSM CellID, downloaded the map around you, listed the openguides
locations, picked your pub for lunch, routed to it, had a meal, but
found an error in the guide, what is the desired return path? Would it
make sense to have a 'comment' option where you just describe the change
to the entry, then next time someone on the web views that article they
see the suggestion, and can edit the article according to the
suggestion, this would then archive the comment. Or we could go for
allowing editing of the entire article on the phone and then upload the
new version.
I presume that with your distributed architecture you have independant
user accounts on each site, what about supporting openid? or something
else? to let remote users authenticate their changes.
Cheers,
Adam.
Since we didn't manage the second summer hackfest, how about an
winter one?
For me this would have to be next year; the rest of this year (weekends)
are basically full up.
Venue yet to be determined, format to be about the same as the previous
one.
If you're interested in coming, visit Meetomatic and tell me when (you
can put in the comments whether you have a preferred location - likely
to be London or Oxford)
http://www.meetomatic.com/respond.php?id=BFMEDF
Cheers,
Dominic.
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On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 07:29:00PM +0000, Adam Boardman wrote:
> From your post to the OSM talk list it looks like your involved in the
> OpenGuides project, any idea when it would be possible to have one API
> to all the OpenGuides sites (preferably maintained by OpenGuides
> people), that I can query with a bbox to get a list of articles? Would
> also be useful to have an API to get/put individual entrys.
>
> We could then build this into OSM using client apps which is where using
> that data as an overlay is most useful.
This is something we've been planning for a while now, but it requires
quite a lot of infrastructure which we don't currently have, so I'm not
sure I can say much yet :( We're having a hackfest some time in the new
year, though, and I will try and make this a priority, as a single point
of entry/search for OpenGuides is indeed quite important.
We tend to export mostly in RDF format with geo namespaces; is this
likely to be useful? (see the RDF format search on one of the existing
guides for an example).
Dominic.
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