Content discussion :
Participants
Schuyler
Max
What applications do we want to run on our location portals?
Mapping Annotation
thingster (anselm) - thingster.com (rdf world modelling project)
rdf world modelling project
meant to be an application generator
could persuade to export usefully
source code? (no)
tagzania
could persuade to export usefully
not much of a ui
single developer
placey del.icio.us
source code? (no)
placeopedia
spatial rss / kml export
(aka yourhistoryhere.com / history flavoured client)
source code? (on request)
openguides.org
wiki + spatial metadata
some basic mapping capacity
source code is available (CPAN / deb)
publishes rdf / rss1
has a tagging-like category system
has an api
Displaying geolocated content
Mapbuilder.sf.net / - googlemaps like interface to OSGIS compliant web services using map server or geoserver eg: freemap.in /
Ka-map - ka-map.maptools.org / - NOT RECOMMENDED (CH)
6 months for the tools to mature / getting the data / -
google maps / -
use google maps on a tie-in
standards & open components
use google for the time being
google map widget in mapbuilder
events
evdb.com
rss (not good)
upcoming.org
rss (not good)
evnt.org
restful api
use our users user account details to aggregate information
requires multiple logins for the moment
collectively shout at EVNT.org
AP: what do we want? - Search by location/distance
peer produced / micro-produced content
tying rss feeds to locations
podcast etc.
artistic content (audio video etc.)
geolocated authoring platform
AP: write use cases.
civic data
scorecard.org
crimemaps.org
where do you pass this off to government
theyworkforyou.com /
AP: ask these guys if the code is available.
publicwhip.org.uk - provide hansard
troubleticketing (otrs.org) / hiveminder.com
user interaction & communication
with bells on
rendezvous
itunes (music sharing)
javascript based jabber client
ajax application (?)
service discovery
ichat
subethaedit / moonedit /
http://jotlive.com/ wikis / etc.
zeroconf / games
forums
chat
mdns responder
foaf
ajax based p2p darknets with foaf