On May 26, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: > 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.
I'd just join opencyclemap. > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > have fun, Steve Coast / stevecoast.com _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
