[MG] Geomap for crossforum theatre

[Pietro Speroni di Fenizio]

Great all this.
Just one little addiction:
what are we going to do about questions that are not location based.

Most of questions on Vilfredo has really nothing to do with a place or another.
SHould we have an extra point for them. Maybe putting them in the
middle of the ocean or on Antartica?

How are we going to differentiate between questions in different languages?

Cheers,
Pietro


On 7 January 2011 12:01, Thomas von der Elbe <ThomasvonderElbe at gmx.de> wrote:
> I like the geomap-view very much!
>
> http://u.zelea.com:8080/v/crossforum/#c=DumG
>
> What do you guys think? So far we came up with 2 ideas for the mapping,
> right?
> Geomapping and tag-mapping. Did I miss something, or is there something
> better?
>
> I like both actually, and would propose to go foreward with the one, which
> is easiest to code.
>
> A few ideas for the geomap:
>
> - have a little miniature globe in the corner of the map for example, which
> lights up every time a global poll is active
> - light up a whole country every time a national poll, or a state poll, or a
> city/county poll in this country is active
> - once zoomed into a country have a miniature picture of the country in the
> corner, which lights up every time a national poll is active. And light up a
> state once a state poll or a city/county poll is active ...
>
> (a minor thing: I liked the colours about the other map a lot: A dark map,
> which starts to glow in the dark (blue, or anything) as soon as people are
> connecting with each other and looking for consensus, with the goal of joint
> action. For me it's a metaphor of a brain, whose neurons are beginning to
> connect in order to think, decide and act.? ... the collective brain of
> mankind ;-)
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
> Am 04.01.2011 19:10, schrieb Michael Allan:
>
> You maybe missed it, but the user can change the map provider.  See
> the (+) control at top right.  I was thinking of your objections to
> Google when I coded this. ;-)
>
> Should we make one of the OSM maps the default?  Or some other?
>
> conseo wrote:
>
>  On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 03:09:13 -0500, Michael Allan wrote:
>
> Here's a geomap preview: http://u.zelea.com:8080/v/crossforum/#c=DumG
> You can switch map providers with the (+) control at top right.
>
> No action yet, it isn't linked to the feed.  Maybe spotlight the
> areas
> with circles and the user locations with conventional map markers?
> Later we can do something more elegant (?)
>
>  Ehm, could we please use foss infrastructure where ever possible? Not
>  only is
>  it important to get a certain level of trust on the integrity of the
>  platform,
>  which is certainly a problem with spying Google, but we also cannot fix
>  things
>  upstream if we need to. Besides that is openstreetmap slowly getting
>  much more
>  detailed and precise in many areas and relevant information for voting
>  can
>  be added/adjusted there at any time. Supporting them also strengthens
>  our basis
>  in general. If we need major changes, we could even host our own
>  mapping server
>  or create a custom data set.
>  Imagining a worse case scenario where some decision is made which in
>  fact
>  targets Google or the US government as well, it is also not helpful if
>  they can
>  pull the plug off legally.
>
>  Are there any special reasons for using Google Maps?
>
>  Besides that it looks awesome, I am already thinking about adding a bus
>  stop there ;-)
>
>  Cheers,
>  conseo
>
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