On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Lukasz Szybalski <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Sanjiv Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Lucas, >> >> Thanks for your interest in the project. >> >> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:15 PM, Lukasz Szybalski <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Florent Aide <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Sanjiv Singh <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi TG dev team, >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for accepting my proposal and giving me a chance to spend my >>>>> summer on TG2 full time. I promise to put in my best and look forward >>>>> to your help during the project. A copy of my proposal is also >>>>> available here >>>>> http://sanjiv-singh.blogspot.com/2009/04/turbogears2-geospatial-framework-gsoc.html >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> This is great. I can maybe finally finish displaying the zip code data >>> from US if you are interested in some collaboration this would be >>> awsome. I know you were busy last fall and then time frame for my map >>> project has changes and I couldn't spend that much time on it. But now >>> its new year and if you will be working on it full time then maybe we >>> can work together and find some bugs, fix them, and get a cool app >>> going.,.... >>> >> >> Awesome. Deploying a real app always speaks great about a framework / >> library. >> >>> >>> 1. I would like to work with you on getting (mapnik server running ) ( >>> this will display the tiles)(I have instructions for that)(90% >>> complete on my side) >> >> Great. Even I had deployed and run mapnik with free Open Street Map >> data for demonstrating TileCache with tgext.geo. I finally dropped it >> from the hosted demo at geo.turbogears.org due to limitations of free >> webfaction account. > > You could use the tile cache server from openstreetmaps...That would > be exact to what you would be running. > http://tile.openstreetmap.org/ >
Yes of course. But I think the discussion was on running our own mapnik server. > >> >>> 2. Load zipcode data from US GOV. I have done that already. >> >> Are you referring to this >> http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tigermap.html#ZIP ? > yes. These are shape files that need to be loaded to postgre. There is > a script that does that already. Ok, if it is shapefile thats great. > > >> >>> 3. Display the gis zipcode data using tg-geo ext onto the mapnik, (Had >>> some issues with that, as I was getting gis errors when trying to >>> display data)(not enough knowledge in the area, so I would need your >>> help in this) >> >> That should be possible once we get the data as shape file or into a >> postgis database. I think zip code data in shapefile format is >> available from http://data.geocomm.com/catalog/US/group217.html. So we >> start from there. > > The zipcode data from census is in shape files as well. So no need to > pay for it. There is a script that loads the data into posgregis. > >> >>> 4. Color code, and add some gis numbers on top of the zipcode data. >>> (60 inquiries , 5$ sold)(This would be part of framework so you would >>> fill in the blanks) >> >> This may be a bit beyond the scope. The styling part is better left >> independent of the framework IMHO as that is something very app >> specific. But you could implement it for your app and I could learn >> along the way ;) >> > > With this I wanted to color code the area of the zipcode "css" based > on some values. So gis data would display the zipcode shape on a map, > while some filed would maybe css color code the area in a different > color, if not display it somehow on the map. Basically I need a way to > display stuff on the map, whether its a layer of a different color, a > house icon at long,latitude, or something along these lines. What are you planning to use on client side? I think this can be achieved using openlayers. OpenLayers too has good support for styling. There are some amazing sites people have build with openlayers. This is an example http://www.co.sweet.wy.us/mapserver/map.html > > Based on that one could move on to updating gis....but from my > perspective the most important part is to display the data somehow. > > Let me know how you would want to collaborate? When are you planning > on starting ...etc. I could setup some dev environment as soon as some > time this week if you are saying I can do above with current version > of tg.ext.geo.... Sure. Once we have data in postgis. tgext.geo / mapfish will encode the data as geojson and send it to a requesting client. Now its up to the client (OpenLayers or whatever JS or Flex based mapping toolkit) to render the data, apply color schemes, show notations, create legends, etc. regards Sanjiv > > > Thanks, > Lucas > > > > >> regards >> Sanjiv >> >>> >>> >>> Let me know what you think. >>> Lucas >>> >>> > >>> >> >> > >> > > > > -- > How to create python package? > http://lucasmanual.com/mywiki/PythonPaste > DataHub - create a package that gets, parses, loads, visualizes data > http://lucasmanual.com/mywiki/DataHub > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-trunk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
