Dear geowankers,
I am the project leader for Cyclopath, which is a geographic wiki
serving the navigation needs of bicyclists in the Minneapolis-St. Paul,
Minnesota, USA metro area (http://cyclopath.org).
We are somewhat similar to Open Street Map, but we go beyond the
transportation network itself to add points of interest, regions, and
lots of annotations like bikeability ratings, notes, tags, and
discussions. All of these annotations are associated directly with the
map object in question, not just using co-location.
We recently went open-source and are seeking volunteer hackers, because
we want to support the ability of other people to bring up similar
systems around the world, and also because the software is becoming
mature enough that we don't have the internal resources to do lots of
cool stuff that people are asking for. We would also like to be a better
citizen of the greater geospatial open source ecosystem, and for that we
need to broaden our community beyond just our internal team.
So, benefits of helping us hack on the system include spreading this
interesting geospatial software to new places and also fixing bugs &
adding features that benefit our users as well as users of any instances
the community brings up. Also, you are awesome and we are awesome, so
naturally we should work together. :)
Cyclopath is a research project project operated by the GroupLens
Research, the human-computer interaction research group at the
University of Minnesota, and the project has generated several
peer-reviewed research papers (see http://reidster.net/papers.html if
interested).
The software about 60,000 lines of code, mostly Python and ActionScript
(we target the Flash Player virtual machine). We use PostGIS for the
backend and it's an Apache license. More info on the source code and a
link to our bug database is at: http://cyclopath.org/wiki/Tech:Source_Code
I will be happy to answer questions here on geowanking. If you are
interested in helping, please e-mail us at [email protected] or on our
new public developers' list, http://groups.google.com/group/cyclopath-dev.
Much appreciated,
Reid
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