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1. Modify for installation and operation on OLPC
1. Modify for installation and operation on OLPC
2. i18n
2. onionskin so that different people can have maps of same village
2. Implement vector drawing (e.g., drawing roads, rivers, etc)
2. Implement vector drawing (e.g., drawing roads, rivers, etc)
3. Make "smart" icons - ones that react to each other and provide warnings/dangers
3. Make "smart" icons - ones that react to each other and provide warnings/dangers

Revision as of 22:46, 26 March 2008

Community mapping is a proven procedure in epidemiology for identifying public health issues and threats - see the Wikipedia article on John Snow. This application provides an interface for mapping villages and communities, so that data can be collected and analyzed about them.


Languages/Technologies

   *     Application - Python
   *     Front end - JavaScript, X/HTML, CSS


Tasks

  1. Modify for installation and operation on OLPC
  2. i18n
  2. onionskin so that different people can have maps of same village
  2. Implement vector drawing (e.g., drawing roads, rivers, etc)
  3. Make "smart" icons - ones that react to each other and provide warnings/dangers
  4. Create internationalization framework
  5. Modify for use on PDAs


Get the code

   svn co http://mobiled.mepemepe.com/svn/village-mapper/trunk


Tags

   maps, python, javascript, html, xhtml, vectorgraphics, pda, icons