[isf-wifidog] Re: nodedb / map / rdf aggregator

[Michael Lenczner]

I just thought I would let you guys know that people were really
excited about Wifidog at the conference today.  Besides Jo, Anthony
Townsend (founder of NYC) also thinks we're doing world class stuff.

Also, don't know if it matters, but just for reference, Joe is one of
the organizers of the next community wifi / open networks world summit
in London and the "Schuyler" who she refers to in the email (and
cc'ed) is http://iconocla.st/cv.html - who wrote NoCat Splash.

mike


On 5/7/05, Jo Walsh <jo at frot.org> wrote:
> 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    
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