Hi Saikat, Yes, your explanation was clear, but I was busy with other work and failed to repond - my bad ;-)
Anyway, your idea is nice. And I can think of a few ways to model this in the graph, but at the end of the day the most important thing to decide first is what queries are you going to perform? Do you want a creative map, that while not drawn to scale, can still be asked questions like 'how far from the roller-coaster to the closest lunch venue?'. That kind of question could make use of the graph and the spatial extensions to provide an answer and show the route on the creative map, even if it is not a real to-scale map. Is that what you want to see? You can try contact me on skype also. Regards, Craig On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Saikat Kanjilal <sxk1...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Craig,Following up on this thread, was this explanation clear? If so > I'd like to talk more details.Regards > > From: sxk1...@hotmail.com > To: user@lists.neo4j.org > Subject: RE: [Neo4j] neo4j-spatial > Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 20:15:27 -0700 > > > > > > > > > Hey Craig,Thanks for responding, so to be clear a theme park can have its > own map created by the graphic artists that work at the theme park company, > this map is sometimes 2D or sometimes a 3D map that really has no notion of > lat long coordinates or GPS. What I am proposing is that we have the > ability to inject GPS coordinates into this creative map through some > mechanism that understands what the GPS coordinates of each point in this > creative map are. So thats where the google map comes in, the google or > bing map would potentially have lat long coordinates of every point in a > theme park, so now the challenge is how do we transfer that knowledge inside > this 2D or 3D creative map so that we can run neo4j traversal algorithms > inside a map that has been injected with GPS data. A theme park is just the > beginning, imagine having the power to inject this information into any 2D > or 3D map, that would be pretty amazing. In essence I am doing this so > that the creative map itself > can use neo4j and be highly interactive and meaningful. > Let me know if that's still unclear and if so lets talk on skype. > Regards > > > Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2011 01:13:08 +0200 > > From: cr...@amanzi.com > > To: user@lists.neo4j.org > > Subject: Re: [Neo4j] neo4j-spatial > > > > Hi Saikat, > > > > This sounds worth discussing further. I think I need to hear more about > your > > use case. I do not know what the term 'creative map' means, and what > > traversals you are planning to do? When you talk about 'plotting points', > do > > you mean you have a GPS and are moving inside a real theme park and want > to > > see this inside google maps? Or are you just drawing a path on an > > interactive GIS? > > > > I think once I have some more understanding of what your use case is, > what > > problem you are trying to solve, I am sure I will be able to give advice > on > > how best to approach it, if it relates to anything else we are doing, or > > whether this is something you would need to put some coding time into :-) > > > > Regards, Craig > > > > On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Saikat Kanjilal <sxk1...@hotmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > Craig et al,I have an interesting usecase that I've been thinking about > and > > > I was wondering if it would make a good candidate for inclusion inside > > > neo4j-spatial, I've read through the wiki ( > > > http://wiki.neo4j.org/content/Collaboration_on_Spatial_Projects) and > was > > > interested in using neo4j-spatial to take any creative 2D Map and > > > geo-enabling it. To explain in more detail lets say you are at a > certain > > > latitude and longitude in a theme park inside a google map (or a bing > map), > > > now you want to have the ability to reference that same latitude and > > > longitude inside a 2d or a 3d creative map of that theme park and then > be > > > able to plot these points and enable traversal algorithms inside the > > > creative map. > > > I was wondering if you guys are thinking about this usecase, if not I'd > > > love to work on and discuss this in more detail to see whether this > fits > > > into the neo4j-spatial roadmap. > > > Thoughts? > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Neo4j mailing list > > > User@lists.neo4j.org > > > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Neo4j mailing list > > User@lists.neo4j.org > > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
