The mobile journalist

Progression report week 18

bergh — Tue, 02 May 2006 09:13:47 +0000

I have made RSS-feed, http://bacon.hiof.no/porkchops/rss.php, from whats in the database. And i have improved the simulation, http://bacon.hiof.no/porkchops/form.html, to handle image upload. This is now ready for a mobile GUI. There is a plan to test this on Isle of Wight, http://www.openstreetmap.org/.

Progression report week 17

bergh — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:07:01 +0000

Easter has gone by, and so have my computers. Hardware was dying all over the place. I managed to put bits and pieces from different computers and make one that worked. These hardware problems prevented me from having a productive easter.

But I have been able to gotten a first version of the database implemented, and a simulation the prosses of writing a article and getting an RSS-feed.

Progression report week 13

bergh — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 02:44:12 +0000

We had a meeting this week with some people from samfunnsfag og fremmedspråk, who are working on a project on how to make the readers more interested in local news.

We talked about using them as a usergroup to test the first prototype on. The testing will take place in the last week of april.

STEDBASERTE SYSTEMER 2006, STATUSEVALUERING

bergh — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 05:35:46 +0000

Prosjekt

Fleet Management Lite

Hilmarsen/Håkestad/Islekcerci

Opponent

Mobile Journalist

Erik Bergh

Hovedinntrykk

Kommet godt i gang

komersielt interessant tema

Hva er bra med prosjektet?

Nyttig

interessant powersupply

Gått vekk fra XML fra klient, sparer båndbredde.

Hva kan gjøres bedre?

Annen kartløsning enn googlemap hvis skal testes/brukes under norkse forhold

Uklarheter på sykkelen

Anbefalinger

Husk at googlemaps ikke er god for norske forhold

Dynamo kan få fokus vekk fra hovedproblemet

Status Report

bergh — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:10:16 +0000

I have made a presentation of my project. This is only in norwegian.

Due to sudden changes in mergin of projects it does not involve that part of the project. The other part is on the other partisipants blog. The two presentations will be merged as soon as possible.

Progression report week 11

bergh — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 05:35:01 +0000

The consept is at hand.

I have lifted my nose from the code and made a diagram that describe the consept of this application.

Project report is updated.

Progression report week 10

bergh — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:56:04 +0000

This week I have been looking into userscenarios and databasestructure.

The database is not yet complete.

The project report is under construction.

Progression report week 9

bergh — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 05:22:04 +0000

This week i have looked into different XML-technologies. I have been trying to figure out what would be the best to use for our system. The technologies I found interesting was RSS and Xquery. This will allow for easy adoption to other systems.

I have also been interested in the concept of AJAX, which will allow for a desktop application look and feel to the user interface.

I have spoken to Harald Jansson about mapmaking and WMS. He has given me some pointers about the creation of maps from geodata. He has also shown me some of his current map projects.

Progression report week 8

bergh — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:10:31 +0000

Flu and old codes. This week i was sick, so it was not a creative week. I managed to install Locus times on my server and take a look at it.

Also got the Freporter client form Audun Vaaler.

My first google map hack

bergh — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:23:59 +0000

After a lecture on mapping hacks and google maps i decided to make a hack my self.

The IRC channel #pludring once had a service where you gave your zip code to a bot and it placed you on the map. There were only one problem the map was to so you did not see anything other than a cluster of names all on top of each other. So the service was removed.

I thought that Google map could be a good replacement, so i made a TCL that execute a PHP-script. I could make it all in TCL, but since my TCL knowledge is limited i decided to cut that corner. The TCL is triggered by the command !googlemap. I.e: !googlemap lon=11.395998001098633,lat=59.12545,city=Halden.
The PHP-script then add the information in to a MySQL database. The map gets its information from a PHP-generated XML-file.

http://gakkgakk.org/map

To-do:
Several people on same coordinates
If nick already in list -> update
URL, Image, City