On Wed 30 Nov 2011, Philip Neustrom philipn@gmail.com wrote:
Just wanted to let you know that we've made the first real release for the LocalWiki project. If you were into OpenGuides, you'll definitely like LocalWiki:
Interesting, thank you for letting us know! I like the ease of editing a place's location via the map. Does that just affect the display of the map, or is the data stored separately as lat/long as well?
I have occasionally wondered whether OpenGuides is still the right platform for RGL, but never found anything else that has the features I need. (And indeed I'm currently working on a new OpenGuides site, in addition to RGL - won't be launched before the end of the year though.)
LocalWiki seems to be more traditional-wiki than OpenGuides, going by this: https://dentonwiki.org/DentonWiki_Guide
which says that the most important concept is linking. For me, the power of OpenGuides is that it lets links between places emerge, via geographical proximity or via categories, so we don't have to worry about figuring out which pages to link to which, or keeping said links up to date when places close.
For example, I need to be able to visualise the data like this: http://london.randomness.org.uk/scripts/locate.cgi?cat=Pubs&loc=Oxford+S...
The locate.cgi script is an addon I made, but the data is pure OpenGuides. Does LocalWiki have structured data like that?
Also, do you plan to transfer the Davis Wiki to LocalWiki? How easy is it to transfer data from another wiki engine into LocalWiki? What does the database structure look like?
Kake