LocationPortalsRoadmap

1. Participants
2. What applications do we want to run on our location portals?
   1. Mapping Annotation
   2. Displaying geolocated content
   3. events
   4. peer produced / micro-produced content
   5. civic data
   6. user interaction & communication

Content discussion :

Participants

• SaulAlbert

• JoWalsh

• Schuyler

• BenoitGregoire

• FrancoisProulx

• MichaelLenczner

• ChrisHolmes

• 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