This one time, at band camp, IvorW wrote:
My thoughts about this are to have a new type of node called a route. Such nodes contain a list of (x,y) or (lat,long) pairs tracing a route. These are joined together by straight lines when displaying on SVG or suchlike.
Sounds similar to an idea I had for when you're going on a journey and want to find all the stuff that is within a range of your route. Ideally upload your MS Autoroute or GPS route waypoints?
This idea would be great for my site. Geek goes on holiday with non-geeks and non-geek agenda. Geek puts in route to find where the group's plan can be merged with some geek sites to see :)
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 06:57 am, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
This one time, at band camp, IvorW wrote:
My thoughts about this are to have a new type of node called a route. Such nodes contain a list of (x,y) or (lat,long) pairs tracing a route. These are joined together by straight lines when displaying on SVG or suchlike.
Sounds similar to an idea I had for when you're going on a journey and want to find all the stuff that is within a range of your route. Ideally upload your MS Autoroute or GPS route waypoints?
This idea would be great for my site. Geek goes on holiday with non-geeks and non-geek agenda. Geek puts in route to find where the group's plan can be merged with some geek sites to see :)
Ooh a perfect entry-point for my wife's idea.
This past weekend my wife and I went on an unplanned road trip to West Virginia (from Minnesota, around 900 miles each way or ~13hrs of driving). On the way back she said she really would like to have a kind of Road Trip guide to the United States that listed things you could see along the way.
I instantly thought of Simon's geek guide to the world and told her that if she were interested I could set up some software for her, she'd simply have to start doing the research. This lead to a few seconds of my ruminating on what would be neat things to have in the OpenGuide software to accomedate this kind of Guide.
* Some kind of intra-guide linking/link discovery. So that if I had the Sears Tower on my road trip, it could automatically link to the Tourist Engineer page as well as potentially the OpenGuide to Chicago if/when it exists.
* The ability to search for things along a "route", not just from GPS route waypoints because *gasp* not everybody has a GPS (damn them expensive toys) but also from a simple list of nodes.
* The abilty to generate a list of nodes that fall under some complex search. "All nodes that match [this postcode], Category: Resturant, [node text Truck stop]" "All nodes that match [this category] [within 500 meters of long/lat]"
There are probably several other ideas percolating around in there. But I thought I'd bring this up since it seemed pertinent.
-Chris
openguides-dev@lists.openguides.org
-
Chris Prather -
Rev Simon Rumble