Ball Rolling

Submitted by SubCoolEnt on Fri, 2008-01-11 13:44.
Hey, I am kinda new to this world. But, i came to this site because of a reference from something else. So, it appears u need help... What can i do? I am only available part time as well, but... eh.
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Contacting

Submitted by drewzhrodague on Mon, 2008-01-14 19:22.
If you would like to talk to me in detail, we can discuss permissions and such. Please make yourself an account, and use the contact form to send me a private message.

A Tasklist

Submitted by drewzhrodague on Mon, 2008-01-14 19:15.
An excellent question! In fact, there is quite a bit on the tasklist, even snippets of todo items help start the ball rolling. I've intended to allow the community how to jump-in, but haven't provided any information on how to do that. So, I'm glad you asked about how to actually help. Here's a quick tasklist. I can try to organize them into development tasks, or messages from within Drupal. There may be a more apt CMS to use, but I figured that Drupal should be capable, etc, etc. Perhaps some of you that are willing to help, and more familiar with some of these pieces, can help us all in figuring out how to build them.
  • Upload Functions - Add the proper upload function to Drupal, or properly configure an existing upload function to the requirements. I'd like to keep track of who uploads and when. From the upload we can determine whether it worked, what type of file, how many items contained within the upload (handling .zip, or .tgz files properly), and date-ranges for the items in the upload. We'll need to generate an extent, and credit the user for the upload. Before, we named each file with the date and user, and didn't actually have statistics.
    • Parsing Functions - getting a rough idea if the type of file, you can build parsers that deal with them.
    • Wardriving - Netstumbler and Kismet. We have parsers for those, and they exist elsewhere.
    • JPEGs can be geocoded. We should be able to handle these. Even the date of their images can be matched with...
    • GPS and other geo-related files. You should be able to export *your* data from Google Earth, and upload it here. This should be pretty easy
    • Trash - Yes, people upload trash files. Go figure.
  • Map Display - this shouldn't be too hard, once the Google Map interface is understood. I'm sure some of you have noticed that there is some kind of geo post.
I am using all FOSS software for this, and I would like to release all code and data into GPL-land. I have been working on getting our (rather large) repositories of data into a usable database, where it will need to be restructured. I am not a DBA, or a cartographer, so I miss-out on how to build a large-scale geospatial database schema (!!!). PostgreSQL (or MyGIS?), PHP, and Mapserver as an Geo XML engine.