On 1 June 2011 15:14, Michael Seibold <michael.seib...@barmer-gek.de> wrote: > Hi Alex, > > great work! > > I want to contribute an idea for a little enhancement - getting the location > coordinates (longitude, latitude) from postal codes (I posted this 08.09.2009 > to the discussion list as "automatically generated Maps with a lot of > locations"). Basically it would be a little add-on to your work. Maybe you or > someone at the Dev-Jam can add this so your patches. >
I suspect not me. But maybe this is something to do in the RESTful service that returns geolocation information? > You can get the geographic locations with the use of postal codes, see > http://www.geonames.org/postal-codes/ > > Download Postalcodes for your country, which is a rather small file: > http://download.geonames.org/export/zip/IT.zip Hmm, it's going to depend on country. For example in the UK the postcodes are copyrighted data. > > and add it to the postgres db so you don't need an online connection from > your network management to the internet (something I don't like... and > besides, you don't want your network management to fail if some parts of your > net are not running, so a distributed network management application is no > use for me): That would require the core developers consent. I doubt there is a desire to overly bloat the OpenNMS data model. -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ http://www.half-llama.co.uk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Please read the OpenNMS Mailing List FAQ: http://www.opennms.org/index.php/Mailing_List_FAQ opennms-devel mailing list To *unsubscribe* or change your subscription options, see the bottom of this page: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opennms-devel
