Hm it's cool. Do recommend using OpenLayers because then you can let people draw lines also.
Also strongly recommend connecting to an aggregator ( as Andrew recommends ). I was thinking about how these projects compare to the new Google My Maps: Google My Maps is quite nice in how it is integrated into google maps, lets people draw lines and share permalinks. It's very good for a browser based experience. But it is not easy for our bots to spider the public Google My Map Collection. My Maps are not canonically organized anywhere nor are we allowed to drop our own robots inside of the Google infrastructure. So My Maps doesn't really grow the ecology (at least in it's current incarnation). To wander afield for a second: It is a risk for google to offer "leaf" services under their own google umbrella because without that arms-length relationship to actual data content; one of the original real strengths of google; "discovery" and "community innovation" becomes diluted; google just becomes another silo; as imaginative as it can be internally but not leveraging a broader community of imaginative applications of data. The real value of what you are doing is that it could publish maps to an aggregator. Later on the community can write software agents to do new kinds of work based on aggregating that content ( new kinds of work like say finding the most popular dining hotspots or various kinds of social signalling projects like say craigslist clones or whatnot ). - a On 4/14/07, Andy Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 14 Apr 2007, at 00:42, Mikel Maron wrote: > On MediaWiki and Geo-extensions, I built one called, for lack of a > better word and because I generally have it on the brain, GeoRSS > > http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoRSS > > It's for building GeoRSS feeds out MediaWiki articles. Location can > be added to any article with a small google map. > Might be some bits and pieces useful towards making the ultimate > MediaWiki Geo Extension. Ooh, that looks interesting. Thanks Mikel - I'll take a look at that. -- Andy Armstrong, hexten.net _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
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