[Talk-ca] Opendata group Analysis

[John Gill]

I was there too.   There were several laptops running Ubuntu, as well as the
plethora of macs.

There was one guy working on openstreetmap, he has created this rather neat
site + I spent some time chatting to him:

http://opendatamap.ca/

More information on the project is here:

http://opendataapps.org/apps/5-open-data-ottawa-points-of-interest

John

On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 7:44 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> They had a meeting in our city hall today.  What they appear to be doing is
> taking a list of locations in a spreadsheet format such as drinking
> fountains then overlaying them on top of Google maps using an icon.
> Moderately lightweight stuff that needs little understanding of the data but
> can be done rapidly.
>
> For example one "application" was playing back the buses passing a bus
> stop, the application used the data file speeded up and went ping or beep
> and to play a small tune.
>
> The reason I've posted in both CA and Newbies is we don't appear to have
> the same capabilities in OpenStreetMap unless I'm missing something and
> their applications use Google Map as a background image and sticks the icons
> in on top.  Anyone have any knowledge of what they are doing or how they are
> doing it?
>
> I did notice that 9 out of 10 computers were mac notebooks of one type or
> another so we probably aren't talking terribly technical stuff here, but if
> it could be done using OpenStreetMap as a basis that might be worth
> following up as they do seem to be good at hype.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks
>
> Cheerio John
>
>
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