Re: [Ldsoss] a new application

2005-09-04 Thread Richard Smith
Geocoder.us looks useful, however it does pose some problems for me. I'm sure there are resources elsewhere, but I'm not in America so anything that's US-centric isn't going to work for me or anyone else in different parts of the world. Google's map data is provided by navteq, but I'm not sure

Re: [Ldsoss] a new application

2005-09-04 Thread Dan Hanks
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Arthur Westover wrote: I was thinking it would be nice to develop an application that would allow someone to quickly tell who lives close to whom in a ward. For the Perlers out there, take a look at this: http://search.cpan.org/~nmueller/HTML-GoogleMaps-2/lib/HTML/GoogleMa

Re: [Ldsoss] a new application

2005-09-03 Thread Bryan Murdock
On 9/3/05, Jesse Stay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing that does concern me about using google maps however is > that you are still relying on a 3rd party provider (and somewhat of a > monopoly) to provide your data. It would be nice to see someone in > the open source community to take gove

Re: [Ldsoss] a new application

2005-09-03 Thread Jesse Stay
Hosting could also be obtained at SourceForge or Savannah. For that matter, I'd be glad to host small projects on the ldsoss.org website. That said, while I think this project sounds interesting, I'm not currently in a position to contribute any time to it. :-( Charles You could also develop o

RE: [Ldsoss] a new application

2005-09-03 Thread Steven Farnsworth
needs (Fast Offering and emergency response groups). Regards, Steve Farnsworth -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pratt, Dave Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 4:38 PM To: LDS Open Source Software Subject: RE: [Ldsoss] a new application There

Re: [Ldsoss] a new application

2005-09-03 Thread Charles Fry
> Looking at the documentation for the google maps API it should be fairly > straightforward to set up the front end. Someone who can write XHTML, XML, > and javascript/PHP should be able to put together a webpage that could call > on a flat file containing needed information. I might be able

Re: [Ldsoss] a new application

2005-09-03 Thread Penguin Migration Computer Serices
I don't think my email went through, sent from the wrong account I suspect. Anyhow.. I live in an area that is about 40 miles across, with 30 active out of around 120 members. We also have about 6 cars among the active members. Knowing where all the members are in relation to one another wou

RE: [Ldsoss] a new application

2005-09-02 Thread Pratt, Dave
a database is that people move quite often. Updating it is a major task. From: Dave Pratt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Penrod Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 9:31 AM To: LDS Open Source Software Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] a new applic

Re: [Ldsoss] a new application

2005-09-02 Thread Paul Penrod
u buy your house? :Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan Murdock Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 11:13 PM To: LDS Open Source Software Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] a new application That's a pretty cool idea. Without thinking about if

RE: [Ldsoss] a new application

2005-09-02 Thread Steven Peterson
1, 2005 11:13 PM To: LDS Open Source Software Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] a new application That's a pretty cool idea. Without thinking about if for more than 5 seconds, I'll hazard that it'd probably be fairly easy to whip this up using google maps: http://www.google.com/apis/maps/

Re: [Ldsoss] a new application

2005-09-01 Thread Bryan Murdock
That's a pretty cool idea. Without thinking about if for more than 5 seconds, I'll hazard that it'd probably be fairly easy to whip this up using google maps: http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ Bryan On 9/1/05, Arthur Westover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was thinking it would be nice to develo

[Ldsoss] a new application

2005-09-01 Thread Arthur Westover
I was thinking it would be nice to develop an application that would allow someone to quickly tell who lives close to whom in a ward. This would be useful for hometeaching and visiting teaching assignments, esp. with the rising costs of transportation. While this might not be a big deal in areas