The project I believe he's referring to is PlayaInfo, which really could use some lovin' by some open source GIS tools. I'm thinking OpenLayers, FeatureServer / GeoServer, etc.
To see what PlayaInfo currently looks like, check out http://playainfo.org/ nym On 6/19/07, Anselm Hook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Will Chase <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jun 18, 2007 9:04 PM Subject: [bman-web] Seeking Help with Burning Man Earth To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] yo hook, can you forward this onto your geomapping enthusiast friends? ========== For those that aren't aware, the Burning Man Earth team has developed an instance of Black Rock City that exists in the Google Earth virtual world (http://earth.google.com). For more information about Burning Man Earth, visit http://bmearth.burningman.com. (Note: The Burning Man Earth project is loosely associated with the Burning Man Project inasmuch as it has been developed by people close to the organization (including Rod Garret, the city designer, and Andrew Johnstone, developer of Virtual Burning Man), with support from and oversight by the Burning Man Project. However, their development team acts as an independent group separate from ours.) The Burning Man Earth Project is looking for an engineer to help out with the process of optimizing the Burning Man Earth experience for lower-end computers. In its current incarnation, the Black Rock City data file (a KML file, in the Google lexicon) is one big contiguous file, without regard for regions (e.g. determining what is and isn't in the field of view, and showing high level of detail for only those objects, while loading potential next fields of view in memory), making it very processor and memory intensive. Google has an API and instructions published (start here: http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/ and continue to explore) that explain the process by which these files can be optimized. I'm asking YOU folks because we've had many strong engineers come through the door lately, and we admittedly don't have a lot of intensive engineering projects on our plate, and this might be a way for you to exercise your prodigious skills while helping out the Burning Man Organization. If you're interested in helping out with this project, please poke around the Google API information a bit, check out Burning Man Earth, then let me know and I'll point you in the right direction. Thanks! -pq ------------ will chase project managin' / webmasterin' / event producin' / art curatin' / theatre company runnin' / writin' / dj'in' / fool / www.panhandlebandshell.com / www.finchmob.com / www.willchase.com "Suddenly he realized what the answer to the problem was, and it was this, that something very weird was happening; and if something very weird was happening, he thought, he wanted it to be happening to him." - Douglas Adams, "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
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