[maps.soton] Re: Future Maintainability

[Christopher Gutteridge]

Cambridge are not very joined up on this. I've just spoken to the lass 
that's running their 'open data service' which is all about research 
data. No real join between that, equipment data and project drake.

On 31/03/2015 11:19, Ashley Smith wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've been making some progress albieit slowly. My main priority at 
> present is to implement a tile server that iSolutions can support, as 
> the current maps.soton one is a bunch of cached tiles generated from a 
> VM that will almost certainly disappear when Chris leaves. So far 
> things are going well, at least technically, I've decided that bulk 
> generation is definitely better than dynamically generated tiles as it 
> has far less system restrictions for the world-facing service. Once 
> the tech all works I'll work towards getting different sets of tiles 
> up as well, for example, one that shows roads more prominently (not 
> too different from normal OSM) and another that looks as close as 
> possible to the printed University maps as possible. I've not really 
> been up to much else with regards to maps, other than ensuring the 
> open data is up to date (Boldrewood, etc)
>
> Chris, I'd be really grateful for the carto files we are currently 
> using as they will provide a good starting point for this.
>
> Mark, I too would like to see project Drake implemented here, and I'd 
> really like to ensure Geography gets involved as much as possible, 
> time permitting, mainly because we're IT experts not cartographers, 
> and we want to get it right! However, I believe that iSolutions will 
> not support a project like Drake from the ground up, claiming it to be 
> too expensive, but a better strategy would be to simply do it anyway, 
> involving comms as much as possible so we end up with something they 
> like, and then it will just become business as usual that way - this 
> is the method that worked for events.soton.ac.uk, which had no formal 
> project or funding behind it. I am fortunate that my position within 
> the innovation team allows me to do things like this. I can't claim to 
> have the knowedge of open map-based technologies that Chris does, but 
> I'm learning.
>
> Ash
> Open Data Service
>
>
>
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