Gregory Szorc's blog

GPS on the Case Wiki

The Case Wiki now has the ability to associate a geographic coordinate with an entry. Now, when do the NextBus Greenie's arrive?

Example Pages:

• Norton House


• Adelbert Hall


• Tomlinson Hall


• Yost Hall

If we found the coordinates of every building on campus, there are some API's to do some wicked cool things with Google maps and such. For example, we could start with a satellite picture of the campus and plot the locations of various bloggers on campus. Ever wanted to find out what people in the BRB were doing on a given day?

You can ping this entry by using http://blog.case.edu/gps10/mt-tb.cgi/1736 .

Gis + Google Maps = A map front end to your favorite wiki It's so obvious... use the Google Maps...

Feedmap.net allows you to map blog locations. See the sidebar on my blog (http://blog.case.edu/bcg8/).

I had this crazy idea where we use the google maps API with little icons for each building to do a campus map and make each building a link to the wiki page for the building.

PS i wish my initials coincided with something cool.

I already hacked together a quiock proof of concept, I'll blog about it tonight. It's too nice out to clean it up and blog now.

Ran into your post via google. I am gathering GPS data for paths and buildings on campus today for a different project (freshmen SAGES course section placement). Email me if you would like to make a project out of this... i have a few ideas for some.