[Geowanking] design suggestions for web-based open data application

[SteveC]

seems like a fairly simple dots-on-maps app with aggregation and  
commenting, maybe ning does this stuff magically by now?

also might check out the people who made bike danger maps of London a  
few years ago, they did the same thing but on paper with passing  
cyclists, manual aggregation. Was shown at dorkbot london iirc.


On 24 Sep 2009, at 08:00, Bryan Keith wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for some design suggestions.  I'm in contact with one  
> of the
> people working on this website:
>
> http://www.bikewise.org/
>
> The folks putting that site together are mostly non-technical.   
> They're
> cyclists.  What they're trying to do is collect data, with a spatial
> component of course, about bike crashes, near misses, hazards, and  
> thefts.
> The idea is that when enough data is collected transportation planners
> can use this information to improve bicycle safety and facilities.   
> Since
> getting a city or region to be bicycle-friendly is a long term  
> process (on
> the order of decades), it is imperative that the data is stored in  
> an open
> format so that anyone who needs the data now and in the future will be
> able to easily access it.
>
> I think there are quite a few people on this list with experience in  
> this
> kind of application.  I also understand if this platform is built  
> well it
> only has to be built once and can be used anywhere in the world.   
> What are
> your recommendations for how the data ought to be stored?  What  
> specific
> database/format/application and why?  What application/api should  
> this be
> built on?  How should the data and application be licensed?  What  
> other
> questions should I be asking?  What else should be considered?
>
> I'm looking for solutions that will allow the data to be available  
> long
> into the future, not just the latest spatial data fad.
>
> Web apps aren't my specialty.  I do 3d gis-type programming for
> sub-surface earth science applications (geology, water,  
> contaminants) and
> have rarely done web stuff and application design.  Thank you for any
> recommendations.
>
> Bryan
>
>
>
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Yours &c.

Steve