Hi Jérôme, I incorporated one of your comments; as for the other I think Timm, Nick would be better suited for the discussion (python backend v/s frontend js). :-)
Best, Anish On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Anish > > Great document. I've added 2 comments to the document, feel free to > incorporate into the document if that makes sense. > > Also added a TODO for myself to do more research about the various search > solutions. > I've used Nominatim in the past (on the client side, not the server > infrastructure) and it was overall very good, but I'll want to know more > about the other ones. > > On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 12:51 PM, Tim Moody <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks, Anish for an excellent start at getting this down on paper (so to >> speak). I think this covers things pretty well and gives us the necessary >> hooks on which to hang the details as we begin fleshing out solutions to >> the requirements you documented. >> >> >> >> Under issues I added one point about rendering non-Roman character sets. >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> *On Behalf Of *Anish Mangal >> *Sent:* Saturday, June 13, 2015 12:15 PM >> *To:* Community Support Volunteers -- who help respond to help AT >> laptop.org >> *Cc:* Unleash Kids!; server-devel; xsce-devel; iaep; Internet In a Box >> Working Group; Jaakko Helleranta >> *Subject:* [UKids] Re: [support-gang] Taking OpenStreetMap Offline - >> DESIGN Call - Thur June 11, 10AM EDT / 2PM UTC >> >> >> >> Okay, so I tried to encapsulate whatever we discussed into a design >> document, which can hopefully serve as a base for reaching out to the OSM >> community and to better organize our own thoughts. >> >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LWsN-cPH3lvMuXS-f0Tk8IWVh-3X808WoIt0OJ-QNt8/edit# >> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LWsN-cPH3lvMuXS-f0Tk8IWVh-3X808WoIt0OJ-QNt8/edit> >> >> Please feel free to edit the information there as I may have missed some >> points, or interpreted them differently than as intended. >> >> Best, >> >> Anish >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Adam Holt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Who's attending http://stateofthemap.us at the UN in NYC this weekend? >> >> Who's most serious about bringing OpenStreetMap's opportunities and rapid >> progress into the hands of the world's offline poor -- kids and all, >> American and Swahili? Wanna Take This Map Outside, offline and off the >> grid, where we all belong/began? >> >> http://Internet-in-a-Box.org and similar efforts have made a gigantic >> 1st step: in Ghana and Rwanda I could never have imagined better reviews to >> our 2015 deployments begun there in recent months. Many are now changing >> the game increasingly for the Bottom BillionS, among many who've literally >> never seen a globe before, nevermind a map of their own towns. Both in >> OLPC (school) contexts, in libraries, on Nepali hillsides where folks don't >> have proper homes, and far beyond --- perspectives (literally) are about to >> change. >> >> But modern phones today contain more than enough gigabytes to display ALL >> OpenStreetMap map detail within most countries, and yet they do not yet, >> WHY? Where are the Khan Academies and KA Lites of OSM (OpenStreetMap) >> bringing new classroom/journalistic rubrics, freeing everyone's "brain >> software" to explore and document our own communities in our own languages? >> >> *Who Will Take The Next Steps?* >> *What engineering middleware, distribution vectors, community/economic >> models, and final field packagings will get us all there & beyond?* >> >> *Will offline edit-contributions prove impossible, much like with >> Wikipedia in Peru, when offline kids edit overly stale >> OpenStreetMap/Wikipedia images a year before/later?* >> >> >> >> As such the wider OLPC community is hosting a DESIGN Call to bring >> forward ideas across the OpenStreetMap landscape, fertilizing our immediate >> work with school server projects like http://schoolserver.org, >> http://xsce.org, https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Education-Li-f-e ETC. >> Ministries of Education in India elsewhere are watching closely, expressly >> eager to help if we can point the way. All giving our "2020 Vision" >> questions very practical and immediate "customers" well before 2020, much >> like Garmin GPS units fed a wonderful ecosystem of geo-specific >> "gmapsupp.img" offline map files over the past decade: >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download >> >> That decade's now done: what IS our framework for the coming decade? >> Please join us if you have strategic/partnership ideas towards making >> Offline OSM Designs happen, *Thank You !!* >> >> >> >> 10AM New York Time / 2PM UTC >> >> Thursday, June 11th >> >> RSVP with your Skype username, if we are more than 15-20 we'll use an >> industrial conference call system instead! >> >> >> CONCLUSION: Could OpenStreetMap be the very ultimate in Constructionist >> Learning Projects, replacing OLPC in coming years, on a quickly >> shrinking/endangered but still green-in-parts planet? Regardless, how to >> build the OLPC Movement's offline/civic learning successes, consciously >> learning from its community infrastructural mistakes? Nick Doiron ( >> http://mapmeld.com) and Anish Mangal ( >> https://in.linkedin.com/in/anishmangal) who've spent years thinking >> about this topic will lead the discussion, agenda is entirely yours! >> OPTIONAL: submit agenda items in advance right here: >> >> >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o6QtzLb6e58YKWqMf_junux2XyBRLFm31un8YLcYslg >> >> >> >> *< forward invitation to Twitter/wherever as appropriate >* >> >> >> -- >> >> Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org ! >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> support-gang mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/support-gang >> >> >> >> -- >> Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org ! >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Unleash Kids" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer > --
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