[isf-wifidog] nodedb / map / rdf aggregator

[Jo Walsh]

hello, i met mike from ile sans fil at a conference recently, and hope
i have come to the right place to drop a few links on you about the
work we have been doing in wirelesslondon. 

i wrote a 'splash server' which is also an RDF aggregator and collects
RSS feeds of geotagged local info ( of which there is a fair bit in
http://london.openguides.org/ ). i managed to get Schuyler to spend a
day fixing NoCatSplash and have got it all working once but never
rolled it out. Very interested in exploring running this with wifidog
on top of http://olsrexperiment.de/ 

http://map.wirelesslondon.info/dev/fiing.txt is an ascii diagram of 
how i see the pieces fitting together; there appears to be a need for
more duplication. imagining bittorrent, tor, jabber in a distribution.
could this all work?

we also have been doing a lot of open source GIS and working with
mapserver, http://uo.space.frot.org/freemap/ shows some prototype ui for
a free map creation side project. 

http://wiki.wirelesslondon.info/NodeDB is the original design, i wrote
a prototype in perl that just about works but is quite messy and
kludgy. A new version in python has been around 95% for too long :/
http://map.wirelesslondon.info/dev/wl2_0.1.unfinished.tar.gz contains
both versions, if anyone's really curious to see it. 

the RDF aggregator with restful interface and spatial/temporal index
is really a separate component, as is Schuyler's mapserver package, 
and we should release stable versions of both soon, also map creation
tools, that might be useful or interesting to you... i hope!
i feel optimistic about the, sort of second wave open wireless 
services appearing and the resolution of the infrastructure into
something cheap and stable...


-jo