Flagship GeoMapping Framework

RCOS - Summer 2010Brian Michalski http://github.com/bamnet/flagship_geo

Why?

•Digital maps are everywhere.

•No open framework to build custom maps. People:

a)plugin to existing CMS’s (Drupal, MediaWiki, etc.)

b)write once-off custom applications.

•^^ Data rarely available in a “standards-based” format.

RCOS - Summer 2010Brian Michalski http://github.com/bamnet/flagship_geo

What?

RCOS - Summer 2010Brian Michalski http://github.com/bamnet/flagship_geo

How?

•Ruby on Rails 3 (currently developing against beta3)

•Database agnostic (strict ActiveRecord)

•Mapstraction (Javascript mapping abstraction library)

•HTML 5

RCOS - Summer 2010Brian Michalski http://github.com/bamnet/flagship_geo

When?June:

Develop Map Builder (single output [Google Maps])Expand Rails HTML 5 support

July:Output to multiple map frameworksImplement file-based output formats (KML, geoRSS, RDF?)

August:Tie up loose endsFinish testing / documentationDeploy @ RPI

RCOS - Summer 2010Brian Michalski http://github.com/bamnet/flagship_geo

Questions?

RCOS - Summer 2010Brian Michalski http://github.com/bamnet/flagship_geo