GeoTiddlyWiki

[rakugo]

Jonathan Lister and I have been working on a geo library for
TiddlyWiki allowing an offline explorable map which you can geotag and
colour.

If anyone is interested I'd like to point you at my blog post at
http://www.jonrobson.me.uk#GeoTiddlyWiki

I am looking forward to answering any questions here, hearing you're
feedback and seeing if anyone else in the community is interested in
working on this...

Jon

[rakugo]

Oh and linky straight to vertical: http://www.jonrobson.me.uk/verticals/geotw/index.html

On Dec 5, 6:29 pm, rakugo <jdlrob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jonathan Lister and I have been working on a geo library for
> TiddlyWiki allowing an offline explorable map which you can geotag and
> colour.
>

> If anyone is interested I'd like to point you at my blog post athttp://www.jonrobson.me.uk#GeoTiddlyWiki

[Paul Downey]

Hi Jon!

> I am looking forward to answering any questions here, hearing you're
> feedback and seeing if anyone else in the community is interested in
> working on this...

cool stuff!

I am wondering why the longitude and latitude is encoded in a single
"geo" field?

Geotagging common convention is to use separate "geo:lat=nn.nn" and
"geo:long=nn.nn" tags, with an additional indicator "geotagged" tag.

I'd be happy with "geo_lat" and "geo_long" fields as I could easily
construct a view template to generate Geo microformat HTML:

http://microformats.org/wiki/geo

unless there's a simple way to unpick the "nn;nn" format in a view
template?

Paul (psd)
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http://blog.whatfettle.com

[rakugo]

Hi Paul I based it on this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geo_(microformat)#One_class

I'm still not convinced about the *best way* to do this and open to
changing this (as it is quite easy..!)

[Ken Girard]

When I first saw your subject I ask "Is this about..."
It isn't but you might want to see this:
http://tiddlyforge.com/tws/geocache.html
Seems like they would go together well.

Ken Girard

[Ken Girard]

Just got a chance to play with GeoTiddlyWiki in IE6.
Everything seems to work fine, except one oddity. The zoom in and zoom
out buttons open tiddles named after the button. Which means your
looking at the map, you click to zoom in and it drops you to the
bottom so you can see the just opened tiddler.

Ken Girard

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[rakugo]

Thanks for letting me know Ken. My testing on IE has been quite
limited but I know how to fix that quite easily.

As for your geocaching tiddlywiki I see this as a great use of this.
They could work really well together and I know Paul is interested in
the same.

I'm guessing the main thing needed to make this useful is street level
detail and a way of tracking your current position?
I've been playing with googles static image server and feel this could
provide an answer for the street level detail bit..
http://www.jonrobson.me.uk/#[[GeoTiddlyWiki%20meets%20google%20maps%20static%20image%20server]]

Jon

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