On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 12:17, John Klos wrote: > > Does anybody know what's wrong with maps.nycwireless.net ? I've done > > some warwalking, and would like to confirm my results. > > It seems that there is either something wrong with the server or with the > code. Since every email I have sent to the personaltelco people offering > help has gone unanswered, it's time to do something different.
Err, John I believe that I have responded to every message you've sent me. I never got responses from you in return. As to what's wrong right now, please cut us a little slack. In the last 24 hours we've been hit by just about every major online news site and that's a lot for *any* server to take. I've said to a few different people, including Terry, that if you guys want to setup you own copy of the maps database you can run your own instance of the maps server. As Michael has pointed out the code has been online since March for anyone to download and play with. > Bon Sy offered to help set up a new maps server. The biggest complaint was > that he is running Oracle, which is expensive, so that everyone would be > dependent on him and his server for maps. Replcating Oracle would cost too > much money to be worthwhile for organisations which are all about free > stuff. Personally I think it's important that we stick with opensource appliations whereever possible. If he's written using a db abstraction layer it shouldn't be too big a job to get it working with postgresql or mysql. > If you're involved with poersonaltelco and the maps server, please contact > me in private so we can arrange to get the files onto Sixgirls servers. You'll need to contact me for that. There is also an XML feed available. We however are in a kind of interesting point with regards to the data we've collected. It never occured to me until recently that we needed a privacy policy on the information. And as such we don't have any one's permission to export that data to another system. In theory it's no problem, in practice I think someone would have legitimate grounds for bitching. I'd welcome suggestions from the community on how best to approach this without pissing people off. Adam. -- "Make the invisible visible. Let people see." -- Bruce Sterling -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
