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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. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 31/03/2015 11:19, Ashley Smith
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<p dir="ltr">Hi all,</p>
<p dir="ltr">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)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Chris, I'd be really grateful for the carto files we
are currently using as they will provide a good starting point
for this. </p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ash<br>
Open Data Service<br>
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