[wsfii-discuss] Fwd: [isf-vol] Fwd: [wirelesstoronto-discuss] [Fwd: Re: [Locative] Micro London]

Thu Jun 23 17:09:02 UTC 2005

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From: Marc Laporte <marclaporte at avantech.net>
Date: Jun 23, 2005 7:32 AM
Subject: Re: [isf-vol] Fwd: [wirelesstoronto-discuss] [Fwd: Re:
[Locative] Micro	London]
To: Jo Walsh <jo at frot.org>
Cc: Michael Lenczner <mlenczner at gmail.com>, Franck Martin
<franck at sopac.org>, Daniel Lemay <daniel at enfin-linux.com>,
"admin at tikiwiki.org" <admin at tikiwiki.org>, Luis Fagundes
<lfagundes at utopia.com.br>, mdavey <tiki at coderage.org>, Maya Wiseman
<maya at scriptshifter.com>, fproulx at lecameleon.net

Hi Jo,

When I see a message about "developing" things that include:

*wiki
*geowiki (cool word!)
*shared calendar information
*geocoded RSS
*post pictures
*tags
*custom 'spatial portal' page for each access point

I feel compelled to write :-)  These are things that Tiki CMS/Groupware
does, wants to do, or wants to do better ;-)

Tiki is an actively developed, full featured Open Source
Wiki/CMS/Groupware. A few links:

5th most popular PHP application on Freshmeat:
http://unix.freshmeat.net/browse/183/

To give you an idea of high activity level:
http://cia.navi.cx/stats/project/tikiwiki

TikiMap:
http://tikiwiki.org/TikiMap  with Mapserver

Tiki has a very powerful wiki, an image gallery, full RSS handling, an
event calendar and many many other features.  Where it becomes
interesting is the tight links/integration between features. For
example, it is possible to assign Latitude & Longitude to users &
images. Tags are in the works for the next release.

Ilesansfil.org (the people behind WiFiDog) has migrated its website &
wiki to Tiki CMS/Groupware. Down the road, we will be looking into ways
to further enhance the user experience by a tighter integration of
WiFiDog and Tiki CMS/Groupware.

http://nycwireless.net also uses Tiki and is getting their own auth
server and hotspot system set up now.

Also, Michael Lenczner wrote:

>yup.  we've been talking to these guys:
>http://buddyspace.sourceforge.net/
> because of their interesest in geo-aware chatting.  i'll let people
>know if we get anywhere interesting.
>

I think there is a lot of synergy between all these projects.

What do you think?

Best regards,

--
M ;-)

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Michael Lenczner wrote:

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>From: Gabe Sawhney <gabe at pwd.ca>
>Date: Jun 22, 2005 12:31 PM
>Subject: [wirelesstoronto-discuss] [Fwd: Re: [Locative] Micro London]
>To: "Discussion list for wirelesstoronto."
><wirelesstoronto-discuss at wirelesstoronto.ca>
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>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject:        Re: [Locative] Micro London
>Date:   Wed, 22 Jun 2005 06:29:01 -0700
>From:   Jo Walsh <jo at frot.org>
>To:     Pall Thayer <palli at pallit.lhi.is>
>CC:     locative <locative at x-i.net>
>References:     <42B9543C.601 at pallit.lhi.is>
>
>
>
>hi pall,
>On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 12:06:20PM +0000, Pall Thayer wrote:
>
>
>>http://pallit.lhi.is/bigice/makeme.php?startPic=tqsrssrssrsrtstqt&hTiles=10&vTiles=10
>>
>>
>
>For wirelesslondon's nodedb and node map service, we've been
>developing a london free map service, which combines street data
>and metadata contributed from openstreetmap.org, with free 15m/pixel
>Landsat imagery from NASA, with points of interest from
>http://london.openguides.org and some of the old data
>from mudlondon (the tube station model). We borrowed some ideas
>from wifidog's portal server, http://auth.ilesansfil.org/ - a flickr
>tag for each node to which users can re-post pictures through our
>account; and when http://evnt.org open up for full public use,
>close-enough-geocoding for shared calendar information; and any
>other kinds of geocoded RSS that appears near our world.
>
>This stuff appears on the node map on the web, and also on a
>custom 'spatial portal' page for each access point that runs
>the wirelesslondon client software ( a custom version of wifidog's client,
>until we can reintegrate with their trunk and/or fix nocatsplash, on
>top of the freifunk openwrt.org based mesh firmware. )
>
>I probably shouldn't be plugging http://map.wirelesslondon.info/ yet
>- still not-quite-beta, a few dumb bugs to be squashed, and i'm rather
>code-burned right now :/. But i wanted to bring it up as a prospect of
>"where do we go from here", once Blue Marble Fever subsides.
>The geowiki idea; where everything on the map, and connected to the
>things on it, is contributable and fixable by users.
>Ideally, heading towards a point at which we can get access to aerial and
>satellite imagery that doesn't come with a clause like the one that
>covers Google Maps imagery:
>
>[[ You may not copy, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble,
>   translate, modify or make derivative works of the imagery,
>   in whole or in part.  ]]
>
>Your usage case Pall, but is not so distant from the one definite
>Google Maps takedown we have so far heard of:
>http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/06/google_maps_tak.html
>http://gmerge.2ni.net/
>
>tread softly!
>
>
>-jo
>
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