I'm somewhat agnostic on how the data is presented :-) The interesting thing to me is to see if the design pattern kool aid would be useful in exploring this space.
The idea of each 'pattern' having a user and/or developer story is very appealing to me. There is a heck of a lot of code out there, and it is hard to know where to begin! I think I like your matrix thought-to be able see the coverage at a glance and all. On 8/30/06, Mateusz Loskot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Rich Gibson wrote: > On 8/28/06, Andrew Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Mateusz Loskot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I would think the result would either be a table of "problems" and >> solutions like the Wiki page Ari made (I tabelized it), or a "GeoZoo", >> akin to O'Reilly's CodeZoo (http://www.codezoo.com/) that lists >> various Geo-specific libraries and tools in various languages. So I >> can just do: "KML export in C++" or something > > This looks like a design patterns sort of problem...start with a use > case and move on. 'Parse GPS' is meaningful to a lot of people, and > we'd be able to reach more with a 'pattern' like 'share GPS data > between applications' It sounds reasonable, but I'd add 1-2 levels of organization to avoid huge tables, less readable. How about "Mapping Hacks"-like organization by task (or better, by hack:-)) and then language-solution matrix. ... 2. GPS 2.1 Share data between applications lang/frmt | GPX | GML | ... ---------------------------------- C++ | bar | foo | ... ---------------------------------- Java | ... | ... | ... ---------------------------------- Python | ... | ... | ... ---------------------------------- | | | I hope this ASCII art is readable. Cheers -- Mateusz Loskot http://mateusz.loskot.net _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
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