Fri 15 May 2009
Public map for the 2009 Gran Canaria Desktop Summit
Posted by J5 under GUADEC , community , conference[6] Comments
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I’ve started a publicly editable Google map for this years GUADEC/Akademy Gran Canaria Desktop Summit. I’ve added a few of the recommended hotels and the conference venue so attendees can get an idea of the distances and locations between each place. Please add any information that would be useful to attendees including the rest of the hotel list, event locations and gathering spots. I hope to see a lot of new and old faces at the conference in July.
UPDATE: Behdad pointed me to a more complete map.
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May 15th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
What about using OpenSource software or services where map data is available under CC?
May 15th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Yes, I would be much more comfortable if we used OpenStreetMap maps (http://www.openstreetmaps.org/) for this. Not the least because I know that several people who will be there are fanatic OSM editors (yours truly included).
May 15th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
+1, those locations should really get added to OSM. It already knows some information of that type (hotels, restaurants etc.), so you can just add those venues directly to the OSM data.
May 15th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Here’s a rather complete map:
http://tinyurl.com/guadec2009
May 16th, 2009 at 1:08 am
I would use an open street map if I could figure out how to create one (all the links on openstreetmap.org that might be useful seem to point me to a place that had google maps). As it is I was just trying to find a place to stay and the list of hotels on the web site wasn’t a great format so I decided to get more spatially oriented via google maps. Since I had done some work I decided to share it in hopes that others would find it useful.
As for adding this info to the OSM data you should read my post on the economics of time and effort. If you want someone to become a producer you need to make sure the effort is worth that persons time. If it is a small effort (like adding locations to google maps) people will probably do it and share their results. If it means sitting here reading up about map data formats so that I can eventually get a map published around the time GUADEC is over, well you get the idea.
I’m not trying to belittle the open street map effort. Little steps, right? All I am saying is we need to think about what the user wants instead of what the developer wants. Heck, even Google Maps isn’t perfect here. I stopped adding data once I booked a hotel. However, the barrier was low enough that I started in the first place. There is a lesson somewhere in that.
May 18th, 2009 at 11:08 am
It makes more sense to use openstreetmap data. Due that Google Maps API is privative, not opensource.
It’s very easy, I’ll help you out, OpenStreetMap uses OpenLayers as their javascript map layer engine, you can find easy examples of how to do a mashup of icons(in your case the bed icons) with any layer map behind(openstreetmap).
http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/