OpenGuides-London May 2005

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[OpenGuides-London] [Administrivia] List service restored
by Earle Martin 29 May '05

29 May '05

Apparently mailman managed to get itself in a pickle some time these last few days. Things should be back to normal now. -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.oclc.org/net/earlemartin/

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[OpenGuides-London] Re: NEW FEATURE: Category and Locale maps
by worldKit 25 May '05

25 May '05

This is fantastic! I am clicking all over and finding tons of geocoded nodes, nice. Integrating mapufacture into open guides (and vice versa) was on the order of hours work. Shows off how easy mapping is becoming. A couple non-critical suggestions: list the number of geocoded nodes in the map link, then it won't be surprising if no points appear. also, mapufacture accepts a "title" argument, which could be set to the locale or category name. If there's interest in integrating mapufacture with another openguides, or any other service, get in touch. Mikel --- Earle Martin <openguides(a)downlode.org> wrote: > I am pleased to announce that we have a new feature on the Open Guide > to > London: category and locale maps. > > In the navigation of every locale page and category page, you will > now > see a link to "Map of geocoded pages in this [locale/category]". This > will > take you to a Flash map showing all nodes in that locale that have a > latitude and longitude in their metadata. My thanks to Mikel Maron > for > developing mapufacture.com, and the worldKit that powers it, which > allows > us to do this. > > -- > Earle Martin > http://downlode.org/ > http://purl.oclc.org/net/earlemartin/ >

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[OpenGuides-London] NEW FEATURE: Category and Locale maps
by Earle Martin 24 May '05

24 May '05

I am pleased to announce that we have a new feature on the Open Guide to London: category and locale maps. In the navigation of every locale page and category page, you will now see a link to "Map of geocoded pages in this [locale/category]". This will take you to a Flash map showing all nodes in that locale that have a latitude and longitude in their metadata. My thanks to Mikel Maron for developing mapufacture.com, and the worldKit that powers it, which allows us to do this. -- Earle Martin http://downlode.org/ http://purl.oclc.org/net/earlemartin/

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Re: [OpenGuides-London] Cutty Sark picture - Copyright?
by Rev Simon Rumble 10 May '05

10 May '05

This one time, at band camp, IvorW wrote: > Otherwise, we will have to remove the picture, on account of the > copyright notice that appears on the site. Why on account of the copyright notice? All I can see is (C) 2000-2005, which is a pretty standard assertion of ownership. You don't have to assert such ownership to have it. It does not imply any further rights or restrictions. I know we've been through this, but I would like to point out again that I think images hosted openly on a web site are fair game. As a matter of politeness we should ask the webmaster and trawl around for a statement on their site, but if they don't want the image appearing outside their own site they should use the technical mechanisms available for that. It's analogous to web sites suing for "deep linking", i.e. placing a link to anything but the home page. It's the way the web is designed and it's a feature. If you don't like that particular feature, you're bucking the trend but there are ways to stop it from happening. (Look at the referrer header.) -- Rev Simon Rumble <simon(a)rumble.net> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ "Security experts have been saying for years that the security of the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a rigorous government certification confirming this." - Dr Jonathan S. Shapiro, http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html

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[OpenGuides-London] Cutty Sark picture - Copyright?
by IvorW 10 May '05

10 May '05

I notice that one of our contributors KaiMichaelPoppe has added a photo of the Cutty Sark, hosted on the official Cutty Sark website. Kai - if you are lurking on the list, please request permission from the site owner and include a note to this effect that you have done/are doing so. Otherwise, we will have to remove the picture, on account of the copyright notice that appears on the site. Ivor.

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[OpenGuides-London] Re: [OpenGuides-Dev] listing
by Rev Simon Rumble 09 May '05

09 May '05

[Moved to openguides-london mailing list] Hi there Sophie. This one time, at band camp, Designer Sale UK wrote: > We are mentioned on your site, but the person who has put us on there is > unsure of who we are and what we do: > > We are a fashion company who put on designer sales of discounted stock, six > times a year in London. We stock some of the best known fashion labels and > have been going for 16 years. We would like to be featured on your site in > either a shopping section or an events listing, or both. Please let us know > how to go about implementing this. Our website is www.designersales.co.uk. London Openguide is a community-edited project and so tends to have a user-oriented flavour. Your posting to the site looked a lot like an advertisement and little like the feel of the rest of the guide, so it was removed. Feel free to post a listing to the site using http://london.openguides.org/newpage.cgi . Put the company's name in the Page Title field (Designer Sales). As a beginner on the site, I would suggest leaving the Category and Locale fields blank, we will fill them in appropriately. Please fill in as many of the other fields as possible. Note: Your listing may end up being modified by other users, including positive or negative reviews. That is the point of our site. We will probably tone down any advertisement-sounding copy to provide a more neutral feel. -- Rev Simon Rumble <simon(a)rumble.net> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ HTML's a cheap whore. Treating her with respect is possible, and even preferable, because once upon a time she was a beautiful and virginal format, but you shouldn't expect too much of her at this point." - Mark "Kamikaze" Hughes

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