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[OpenGuides-Dev] Suggestion
by Stephen Stewart 02 May '04

02 May '04

I was thinking about the 'maplink' part of the edit form, if OpenGuides can create/get lat/long coords then couldn't it automatically build a map link? Multimap links are of the form: http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=54.6434&lon=-5.6731&scale=25000 So all OpenGuides would have to do is glue the numbers into a string, right? Also, from a usability point of view it might be nice to have the 'find within distance' form as a set of links, it's only a small set of options so it could be a nice wee button arrangement beneath a node title or something - one click instead of two and a half. Stephen

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Re: CGI::Wiki::Plugin::Locator::UTM OpenGuides
by IvorW 01 May '04

01 May '04

----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Stewart" <beowulf(a)carisenda.com> To: <ivorw-openguides(a)xemaps.com> Sent: 30 April 2004 22:34 Subject: CGI::Wiki::Plugin::Locator::UTM OpenGuides > > Hi, > > What do I need to change in OpenGuides to use > CGI::Wiki::Plugin::Locator::UTM Excellent! Someone wants to use my module :). I designed it with OpenGuides in mind, but I have not integrated it yet. But, you are in luck. I have the time to work on this at the moment. I will update the dev CVS on un.earth.li, and also make patches available through this list. > (I want to use the modified airy ellipsoid to get better results)? I don't know if "Modified Airy" is the right one to use, but it is certainly supported by Geo::Coordinates::UTM. My researches have shown "GRS 1980" as recommended as a generic ellipsoid for Europe. > > Also I changed Template.pm to use Geography::NationalGrid::IE but we > don't have access to ox x/y coords, so what do I need to change to use > long/lat coords? Ah, Geography::NationalGrid is designed to only work with OS coordinates. I also think that lat/long is the way to go with OpenGuides as a whole, as everyone uses GPS, the world over. What is equally important though, is that the metadata stores an X and Y reference somehow. CGI::Wiki::Plugin::Locator::UTM uses metadata fields called zone, easting and northing. It is important that these fields are populated in the database, otherwise "find by distance" will never work. C::W::P::L::U has been designed with this in mind. The current OpenGuides version uses CGI::Wiki::Plugin::Locator::UK, which relies on metadata fields called os-x and os-y being populated. I have deliberately used different field names, so that we can incorporate both sets of data in the same wiki. This is possibly a requirement for the UK. > Sorry, but my questions can't be very smart and I can't write patches, > I'm just a designer trying to bodge this together. Don't worry. If you can test the changes I am making to the modules, this would be brilliant. Ivor.

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RE: [OpenGuides-Dev] Grid System
by IvorW 28 Apr '04

28 Apr '04

> -----Original Message----- > From: openguides-dev-bounces(a)openguides.org > [mailto:openguides-dev-bounces@openguides.org]On Behalf Of Stephen > Stewart > Sent: 28 April 2004 14:11 > To: openguides-dev(a)openguides.org > Subject: [OpenGuides-Dev] Grid System > > > Hello, > > hex on #openguides guided me and my questions to this list, so > hopefully you can help. > > We're hoping to get OG to work on the OSIE/NI grid, instead of the > OSGB grid, and if anyone could give us a head start by maybe giving a > break down of the design and what's what it would be much appreciated. The current code uses Geography::NationalGrid and Geography::NationalGrid::GB. You can probably hack OpenGuides::Template.pm to use Geography::NationalGrid::IE without needing to change anything else (probably a useful exercise anyway). What would be nicer would be an install question. Patches welcome :). hth, Ivor.

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Grid System
by Stephen Stewart 28 Apr '04

28 Apr '04

Hello, hex on #openguides guided me and my questions to this list, so hopefully you can help. We're hoping to get OG to work on the OSIE/NI grid, instead of the OSGB grid, and if anyone could give us a head start by maybe giving a break down of the design and what's what it would be much appreciated. Stephen

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Lack of Google indexing
by Earle Martin 26 Apr '04

26 Apr '04

As the statistics graphs I just hacked out show, the London site now has an amazing 1,800 nodes on it. So how come we hardly show up on Google? As far as I can tell, it seems to be because our URLs always contain '?', which Google seems to think is shorthand for "don't take this seriously because it's just generated output". The solution, it would seem, would be to have URLs something like "http://example.com/page/Some_Pub". This could be, perhaps, configurable behaviour, which would make the transition from old-style URLs less painful (i.e. not forcing it on the users when they upgrade). The logical next step would be to have a script doing "301 Permanent Redirect"s - much as what you get if you go to Grubstreet's old URL - to the new page name. I shall be attempting to hack this into the forthcoming version, unless I hear a good objection.... Earle. -- Earle Martin hex on irc.perl.org http://purl.oclc.org/net/earlemartin/

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Customising pipermail archives
by Paul Makepeace 25 Apr '04

25 Apr '04

Anyone know how to customise the pipermail archives? This may require some root-level editing which I'm happy to assist/approve. I personally have no idea altho' there's a bunch of stuff in /var/lib/mailman/lists/<list-name> but not sure how useful it is. I can't even for example work out WTF the archives.html is meant to be doing - the HTML just looks so wrong (<body><title>...). Paul (please cc me in on replies) -- Paul Makepeace ................................ http://paulm.com/ecademy "What is hello? Samba!" -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

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[OpenGuides-Dev] stupid clueless newbie question.
by Stray Toaster 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

Yo, venerated and clever people. I want to install OpenGuides, really I do. (And then do some work to make it go with us hicks who live in Northern Ireland. Bonus!) However, make test throws up: Search::InvertedIndex::DB::DB_File_SplitHash::_open_multi_map() - Failed to lock the -map_name '/www/mwk/toaster/open_guides/indexes/' to lock mode 'EX': Search::InvertedIndex::DB::DB_File_SplitHash::lock() - Unable to obtain a 'EX' lock on the map: Resource temporarily unavailable at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.0/Search/InvertedIndex.pm line 347 yes, I discovered the same thing listed in the mail archives, but not with a big red button that said 'push me to fix'. Plus, I am feeling lazy right now, else I would dig more. That, and supposed to be doing work I get paid for. Can anyone help? Oh, the permissions on the dirs are all world writable until I make a new user yadayada. There is a pint of the old black stuff at YAPC::Europe for the winner. m. oh, should I have said hello, too? Hi all! Glad to be aboard the good ship mailing list and all that. -- The greatest trick the Illuminati every pulled was making the world believe they exist. -- Family ties : http://www.thefamilykerr.co.uk Playtime : http://www.stray-toaster.co.uk

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[OpenGuides-Dev] A similar effort
by Earle Martin 22 Apr '04

22 Apr '04

I just discovered an interesting project called "Add Your Own": http://www.addyourown.com/ It's a wiki restaurant review system! They even have a rudimentary metadata system for locations and restaurant types. Is it worth us plugging the OG system to them? One interesting thing their site does that ours doesn't is a summary view: http://www.addyourown.com/neighborhood.php?nbh_id=13 I think this is a smart innovation. It would be nice to be able to do that for a given category - see a list of all the nodes, with selected metadata fields, in a tabular format. Maybe this is something I should have a go at, since it's long overdue that I contributed some more code. Ha! Someone's already mentioned us to them! Fantastic. http://www.quicktopic.com/23/H/3pd3JmL66G6/p6.1 -- # Earle Martin http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EarleMartin $a="f695a9a2176a7dd1618af6649896ee10f05ea986de18af6277e9a1d8ef4696644569a1d". "8ef46961ae1e64277e9896eea7d92ea8003e9a1d8ef4696f6950";$b="8ALB6AIA4.BA2";$c= join"",unpack"C*",$b;$c=~s/7/2/g;@b=split"",$c;foreach$d(@b){$e=hex(substr($a ,$f,$d));while(length($e)<8){substr($e,0,0)=0;}print pack"b8",$e;$f+=$d;}

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[OpenGuides-Dev] Similar project
by Earle Martin 19 Apr '04

19 Apr '04

By-region ChefMoz importing thing. http://www.firstproductions.com/cgi/dining/ -- Earle Martin hex on irc.perl.org http://purl.oclc.org/net/earlemartin/

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[OpenGuides-Dev] [ANNOUNCE] Statistics!
by Earle Martin 19 Apr '04

19 Apr '04

Lunchtime + DBI + Chart::Strip equals: http://london.openguides.org/statistics/ Not automatically generated at the moment, but I'm going to sort that out next. Note: the data starts in June 2003; I think the node creation dates got reset at that point when a problem was fixed. -- Earle Martin hex on irc.perl.org http://purl.oclc.org/net/earlemartin/

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