seems like a fairly simple dots-on-maps app with aggregation and
commenting, maybe ning does this stuff magically by now?
also might check out the people who made bike danger maps of London a
few years ago, they did the same thing but on paper with passing
cyclists, manual aggregation. Was shown at dorkbot london iirc.
On 24 Sep 2009, at 08:00, Bryan Keith wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for some design suggestions. I'm in contact with one
of the
people working on this website:
http://www.bikewise.org/
The folks putting that site together are mostly non-technical.
They're
cyclists. What they're trying to do is collect data, with a spatial
component of course, about bike crashes, near misses, hazards, and
thefts.
The idea is that when enough data is collected transportation planners
can use this information to improve bicycle safety and facilities.
Since
getting a city or region to be bicycle-friendly is a long term
process (on
the order of decades), it is imperative that the data is stored in
an open
format so that anyone who needs the data now and in the future will be
able to easily access it.
I think there are quite a few people on this list with experience in
this
kind of application. I also understand if this platform is built
well it
only has to be built once and can be used anywhere in the world.
What are
your recommendations for how the data ought to be stored? What
specific
database/format/application and why? What application/api should
this be
built on? How should the data and application be licensed? What
other
questions should I be asking? What else should be considered?
I'm looking for solutions that will allow the data to be available
long
into the future, not just the latest spatial data fad.
Web apps aren't my specialty. I do 3d gis-type programming for
sub-surface earth science applications (geology, water,
contaminants) and
have rarely done web stuff and application design. Thank you for any
recommendations.
Bryan
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Steve
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