On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Rufus Pollock <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 22 April 2011 17:35, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > >> This will be really cool once we get it looking good, so please feel > >> free to contact me if you have any questions! > > > > Is the idea that members add their geolocations to their pages and the > > software trawls the pages to update the map? Or that people have to > annotate > > the map? > > No you just update your location in your profile (it will take some > time to update as we don't run live - we have to extract and > geolocate). I should also note there is an issue where multiple people > geolocate to exact same long/lat (e.g. if two people have Cambridge, > UK as their location). As I said this is a rough and ready first pass > :-) > Does it help if we put in coordinates? e.g. from Wikipedia or geonames? That avoids having to disambiguate and guess > > Rufus > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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