d3, geoJava, etc project
Arthur Purdy
Hi group
I am not a programmer, I am a teacher for grade 3,4 and 5’s. After school I run an orphanage and a feeding scheme for 180+ streetkids. During school holidays I join the organisation and we go to other countries in Africa and train teachers and communities to help themselves. We help them build classrooms, drill wells for water etc. We then select one responsible person to be trained to look after these schools. Many hands make light work J. We have quite a few of them already. They in turn train one person from each province again. We assist in the training. They then establish more schools and then more children get reached.
I have been asked to build a website/app. I have about 3 months of knowledge because I have been on the web late at nights researching how to build websites. I have the index page and datapages completed. Just need the map part to complete the project.
Could you please quote me on doing the following. I don’t want to use google maps. I need the data to be secure. This is what I was hoping to do :
Use D3 to make maps of all Africa countries and then link to a mysql database provided. I have been looking at slippy maps??? The regional rep must only see his countries map, so reps country details in the database can be used to load the map I think. The map must then be populated with dots indicating where schools are that we currently assist (this info is found in the schools table that has gps co-ordinates). The Regional rep can then update or edit the table to the side of the map or right click on the map to place a tag/dot and enter data into a database. Two dots/tags must be available. Yellow for schools we help or have helped and red for schools we are researching/planning to help. Going out to a certain area and inspecting the educational need is not so easy in Africa, quite a process with regional tribal chiefs and local chiefs etc. Lots of permissions and sweet talking before we can get there.
Thank you in advance
Arthur