For anyone who didn't go to the meeting, this was an extremely interesting talk. WDR seems to be involved in this project (as well as the two presenters at the meeting). They have recently improved their API/libraries and they said there is a lot of Perl code (as well as Java, C or C+, and Ruby or Rails code) used on the project that people can contribute to. They also need people (anyone interested, does not have to be a developer) to work on maps and/or add/verify details to maps. One of the important things that needs to be done for Massachusetts map is to "stitch together" (my words) "jigsaw puzzle pieces" (ie: for each town) so that travel rounting can be done across loclity boundaries. This is an ideal task for a Perl script. I'm not sure if anyone is working on the task, but if you are interested, either join some of the email lists or ask WDR (or both). Bill mentioned that the email lists are (somewhere) on their wiki. I haven't explored the wiki in detail yet. (Maybe WDR can mention some of the email lists here - provided he doesn't think that would be spamming.)
For those of you who might want to work with me, I'm willing to volunteer for unit (and other) testing, so if anyone in Boston.pm finds an area they want to work in, and you want to collaborate with me on some of your testing, just let me know. I'd like to get some experience doing Test-Driven Development (hopefully learning from a developer who is good at this, or learning together with anyone who wants to try TDD). I'm willing to help with unit tests in Java, Perl, Ruby, or Python as needed. If anyone knows of a need for functional testing (ie Fitnesse, mechanize, or whatever else might be needed) I'm willing to help there too. -- Bob On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Bill Ricker <[email protected]> wrote: > Resources mentioned > > -- > Bill > [email protected] [email protected] > > if you have NoScript ... this is all JavaScript font end. > > The Map http://osm.org = http://www.openstreetmap.org/ > has built in link shortening ... > Wiki http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/ > email http://lists.openstreetmap.org/ > Topo http://toposm.com <- Lars's > cyclemap and ski mapping (openpiste) alse exist > report map issue http://openstreetbugs.appspot.com/ > > detail links > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Massachusetts > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features > state / country extracts http://www.cloudmade.com/faq#downloads > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-us/ > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/ > > http://www.weait.com/IntroToOSM > > http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ > http://trac.openstreetmap.org/browser/applications/utils/revert/OsmApi.pm > > Layering your own data > http://www.openlayers.org/ > eg http://fd.ema.arrl.org/history/SiteMap.html <-(Bill's) > > _______________________________________________ > Boston-pm mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm > -- Bob Clancy 9 Lives Software Engineering Website: http://agiletester.net Blog: http://AgileTesterDotNet.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
