Web Development Status Report for SCRI meeting Oct 7, 2010
Web development update:
- Recvd. language for release from Casey. Set to launch release with project site Oct 9, 2010. Will send updates on release and development of release to Networking tools group http://localfoodsystems.org/node/267 will coordinate with Casey on a message that can go out to whomever we'd like describing this new resource.
- Will coordinate with Megan when she is available on redesign of resources page
- Ready within a few days from today to update LFS with post permissions based on group permissions. Working out a minor bug on this
- Still researching
http://localfoodsystems.org/projectflow/local-food-systems/user-and-event-location-and-ranges#comments this request is more complicated than it first appeared (is accomplishable, but may take an extensive amount of work, and may require a companion spatial database in order to actually execute range/radius queries against data. This could end up being too complex for LFS to build natively.) - Coordinating with Ross on
http://localfoodsystems.org/projectflow/local-food-systems/stealth-curriculum-tools Ross is going to send a description of a guiding set of pages for resources that are already available re: using online social media tools for networking around entrepreneurship and specialty crops - Coordinated recently with Stan on
http://localfoodsystems.org/projectflow/local-food-systems/stan-ernsts-data-needs he may request custom queries from database on who talked to whom in threads. All of the rest of the data is available (within the bounds of what is actually offered and when data collection was started) in Google Analytics.
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Hi Nathan, Sorry I missed
Hi Nathan,
Sorry I missed your comment.
I'd like to set up a time this week to contact you directly via voice, if you are available. Will message you via email too.
Help with the user and event location and ranges
Hello Sam -
I just started yesterday as the new GIS Applications Developer for Casey, and I think I can contribute to this user-event locational problem. You are correct that it would require a spatial database. Depending on your server-side programming language and environment, the access to the spatial database (or shapefile) would require an extension that could read such data. I prefer GDAL/OGR Library with a python wrapper in order to just calculate distances. For displaying the information in a map and querying datasets, I have experience using MapServer with python or PHP.
My first thought is that there is no spatial data being collected during the user registration which could be in the form of zip codes for estimated location or addresses for specific location. The scale and importance of this information will determine which works best.
If you would like, I can assume ownership of this task, or I can provide guidance. Feel free to contact me to discuss this further.