[okfn-discuss] Geolocator

Fri Apr 22 16:35:06 UTC 2011

Looks a great idea - we should be able to create geographical communities
this way and link to country-based interests.

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Lucy Chambers <lucy.chambers at okfn.org>wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> We have started to create a map showing members' location data. If you
> have any ideas for how this should look / work, please feel free to
> share them here:
>
> <http://ideas.okfn.org/ideas/79/geomap-of-okfn-community-members>
>
> A basic version of this is now done but there much still to improve --
> see README in source:
>
> <http://okfn.org/dashboard/>
>
> For anyone who would like to make improvements - feel free! The source
> code is here:
>
> <https://bitbucket.org/okfn/okfn-dashboard>
>
> This will be really cool once we get it looking good, so please feel
> free to contact me if you have any questions!
>

Is the idea that members add their geolocations to their pages and the
software trawls the pages to update the map? Or that people have to annotate
the map?

P.

>
> Best wishes,
>
> Lucy
>
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