Hi there,
Well then I would suggest everyone just ask for the source
and install it on
their own servers.
Manfred
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay Askren
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 8:58 AM
To: LDS Open Source Software
Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] Mapping on lds.org
First, I want to say the website is very cool. Unfortunately, when I
forwarded it on to some of our church leaders, I got a response that caught me a
bit off guard. A member of our bishopric was very hesitant to put his
username and password to a non church sponsored website. The more I think
about it, it's a very legitimate concern especially today when I'm getting
phishing emails several times a week. I'm sure Richard's website is just
fine, but someone with less sincere intentions than Richard could send a similar
email to this email list just as Richard did, and capture all of our usernames
and passwords to the church website as we go and log into the website to see the
cool web page he built. How can we really know if we trust websites posted
to this or any other email list which asks for sensitive information. Any
thoughts on this?
Jay
On 4/6/06, Richard K
Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Here's my attempt at it:
https://www.moregoodfoundation.org/wardmap/
After entering your LDS.org username and password, it will fetch your
ward directory, geocode the addresses, and map it. Your credentials
are transmitted entirely over SSL, and are not saved.
I'm using Geocoder.us for the geocoding, which works pretty well but
isn't perfect -- some of my ward member's houses were in the wrong
place. But my BYU ward isn't very interesting anyway, since all the
markers are in one tiny clump.
Richard
---
Richard K. Miller
www.richardkmiller.com
On Apr 5, 2006, at 4:02 PM, Todd Miner wrote:
> What I'd really like to see is a mashup of the posted addresses on
> the ward web site with Google maps. Since I work at the stake
> level, I'd love to see all the stake members pinpointed on a map
> with different color pushpins for their ward assignments. I'm sure
> this is possible, and I have even found websites that will publish
> my spreadsheet full of addresses via Google maps - but they charge
> for their services.
>
>
> Sounds like a great open source project. :)
>
> > Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 07:02:39 -0600
> > From: "Ed Ashton" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: [Ldsoss] RE: Welcome to the "Ldsoss" mailing list (Digest
> > mode)
> >
> > Besides the rudimentary mapping on the lds website using mapquest
> does
> > anybody know of any other mapping or GIS related projects the
> Church has
> > embarked on? I'm a membership clerk in our local unit and have
> found using
> > ESRI's Arcview very helpful for leaders, members and missionaries
> to know
> > where members live. Not to mention the the plethora of other useful
> > information that a GIS can contain.
>
>
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