Hey everyone,
For those of you who are interested, here's a link to a test version of my
program that I just set up. Since it's a copy of the actual application I
use, feel free to play around with it (add new entries, etc). Please don't
use this for personal use though--this is just for people who are interested
in seeing how the program works.
http://ferret.homelinux.net:8083/mktest/
David: Oops, good point about MapQuest and the copyright violations... I
wonder what can be done about that. If you get the chance, please take a
look at this site and let me know if you think of anything.
Adam: Hmm, I like your idea about setting up a server that has user
accounts (so that everyone can just use one server instead of everyone
putting a web server on their machine and running this app). However, I
have no idea what/where that server would be. Especially if lots of people
ended up using it, traffic could get pretty high and I imagine that this
would definitely be the kind of copyright violation that David was talking
about... In regard to your other question, the app currently doesn't do
anything with images, though it could probably easily be modified to pluck
map images from MapQuest.
Atul
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Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 3:40 AM
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Subject: Re: Usefulness of a "driving directions database" for Plucker?
On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 10:02:13AM -0600, Atul Varma wrote:
> Basically, this is a little database-driven program that lets you enter
the
> names and addresses of various locations, and then it caches MapQuest
> PDA-formatted driving directions from your home to every location.
Plucker
> can easily be configured to spider this site, effectively providing a
> "driving directions database" for the PDA. The source code can easily be
> modified to cache directions from any location to any other, at the user's
> discretion.
That's actually a cool idea. I do alot of travelling in the States and
am always forced to resort to simple memopad style directions copied
off of what mapquest says. If there were some sort of way to download
it as a plucker .pdb, that would be ideal.
> The only unfortunate catch about this app is that it was originally
> intended purely for personal use, and as such the code is rather messy,
> there's a lot of functionality that could be improved, and worse, the app
> uses Microsoft technologies (ASP, and an Access database), because that's
> what was most fresh in my mind when I wrote it. Its usability by the
public
> is also limited by the fact that the user's computer must have a web
server
> running on it.
What about putting the app on some public server, then prompt the user
to download a compiled .pdb?... That would be ideal :)
> Anyhow, as I mentioned earlier, it would be cool to give something
> back to the community, and this is really all I have to give right
> now; so if you think this kind of program would be useful, please
> let me know.
Absolutly.. What about images? Would those be imported as well?
--
Adam McDaniel
Array.org
Calgary, AB, Canada
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