Setting up shared databases on the web is, like, what I DO! -- password protected portals with user class permission
schemes and easy-to-use database data entry, query, update, delete and reporting functions.
If there are five people who would agree to do some laptop/GPS stumbling and reporting, I'd be more than happy to
set up such a database with contributions limited to the group of 5 (or more upon approval) and read-only access to
the whole group (or the world?). What should the attibutes be?:
- latitude (degrees, minutes, seconds)
- longitude (degrees, minutes, seconds)
- name (like "New Odyssey" or "UO")
- description of facilities (hours of operation, quality of coffee, availability of pan-galactic gargle-blasters, seating, other clientele, what-have-you)
- Cost/hr if any.
- Street address
- (City State Zip unnecessary?)
- radius of coverage (meters?)
- bandwidth
- upstream type (DSL, cable, dial-up(ew), T-1, T-3, etc.)
- owner/admin_id (leading to contact info in "person" table)
- reporter_id (who entered this report)
- date of entry
Am I forgetting anything? Who will be the first 5 field reporters for the WAN-hitchikers guide to Eugene? :-)
-Marc
Elijah Buck wrote:
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 21:36, T. Joseph Carter wrote:
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 04:29:16PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote:Sounds like a plan. I have a laptop and wifi, and street intersections
That's it, we need a geek with wifi and a GPS to go and stumble all ofIn case anyone is interested: Cafe Paradiso has WiFi now.
I'm told that the Wild Duck, at 6th and Charnelton, also has free Wi-Fi. I haven't had a chance to try it out myself yet.
Eugene and build us a proper coverage map.
would surely be accurate enough. In fact, I'm sure there are plenty of
people with wifi and laptops. This sounds almost kinda barely feasible.
Of course, I'm incredibly busy, but here's a start: on 22nd between
Harris and Potter (this is where I live). Feel free to free load off my
256k dsl until I get tired of not having any bandwidth. I don't think it
will reach into University park, but perhaps the bus stop on Harris.
We also need a source of high-gain omni and directional antennas, some AP bridges, etc.. ;)
What else are Pringles cans good for. Certainly not for the chips. It would be great to build some kind of network similar to what is in Seattle. Now if only there weren't so many trees..... -Elijah
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