Pathways project page
Meeting Notes: 9-22-2008
- People working on the project need repo access: email Dave (dpaola2), Rob (rsmolin2) or Karan (kkhanna2) for access.
- Pranay demoed his Yahoo! test app. Works nicely and will suit our needs. (For the moment we've chosen to use the Yahoo! maps over Google Maps).
- MTD Widget that provides an rss type feed for the bus rout info. (Broken, using XMLHttpRequests it's possible to request the bus information for specific stops. The returned XML gives StopName, RouteName, DirectionText, DestinationStop, TimeTillDeparture, and ScheduledDepartureTime.)
- Discussed the issue of overlaying buildings and paths onto the Yahoo map. (Text file that describes the nodes with geographic coordinates; finding out the coordinates seems to be an issue that will need to be resolved).
- Remake of the front end. Not decided on this. Javascript may be the winner by default.
- Things to do:
- How to map the coordinates.--> *We have the GPS data from MTD. Next step is to plot it onto yahoo maps, and also individually create building nodes for each building unless we can get GPS locations for all the buildings as well.
- Overlaying UIUC map images onto the yahoo maps.
- Porting over the relevant and usable parts of the pathways code onto the new one and also creating either static data or a database from scratch owing to invisibility of existing database.
- Searching by street and building name.
- Complete remake for the web page. Also, what language???
- Photos of buildings are still being considered.
Old Stuff:
The old pathways code has been added to the repository. If you look on afs, there are some first steps (I believe) towards a Google Maps compatible pathways here: /afs/acm/sig/soft/www/GooglePathways . There doesn't appear to have been much work done on it, though: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigsoft/GooglePathways
The original: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigsoft/pathways/Pathways.html
