Hey Craig,Thanks for responding, here's what I'd like to see on the creative map: 1) My current position in the park and the positions of attractions and other things in the park2) Ability to perform traversals and graph matching algorithms once number 1 is known3) Ability to add new points in the park through a configurable process
We should talk in person, lots of interesting stuff to discuss, another thought I had was that you come up to Seattle for the graph-db meetup so we can talk in more detail.Regards > Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 17:39:22 +0200 > From: cr...@amanzi.com > To: user@lists.neo4j.org > Subject: Re: [Neo4j] neo4j-spatial > > 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 _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
