This was originally posted to a local geo-hackers list, but I haven’t
\nreceived any response yet. It was long enough that I wanted to publish
\nit in a Google-able form as well.<\/p>\n
I’m Christohper Schmidt, local mapping, geo, mobile application, web
\ndevelopment, RDF, RSS, and otherwise technically oriented hacker. Jo
\nWalsh mentioned my name on this list a few months back, as the organizer
\nof the Open Guide to Boston.<\/p>\n
I’ve been working for the past couple months on boostrapping the content
\nin the Open Guide via the zami.com sites for Boston, Cambridge, and
\nBoston-Metro. Since there is no database-protection on copyright in the
\nUS, pulling the data from these sites for repurposing it is a (as far as
\nI know) valid legal use of the data, and the Boston OpenGuide has
\nprospered significantly from these additions in terms of Google hits due
\nto the sheer size of the dataset.<\/p>\n
However, it’s now coming to a point where adding more random content
\nisn’t helping to expand the guide in a way that’s entirely beneficial.
\nWhat is needed to expand the Open Guide to Boston is, quite simply, more
\ncontent about the places that are described.<\/p>\n
A relative few of the nodes have full content — reviews, pictures, and I have a couple reasons why. First, I hate closed systems with I would love to see more interest from the geo community in and around I’d be willing to demonstrate or pontificate on any of my desires or Looking forward to hearing from anyone who’s interested in helping, This was originally posted to a local geo-hackers list, but I haven’t received any response yet. It was long enough that I wanted to publish it in a Google-able form as well. I’m Christohper Schmidt, local mapping, geo, mobile application, web development, RDF, RSS, and otherwise technically oriented hacker. Jo Walsh mentioned my name on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email-posts","category-openguides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nso on. Judy Jetson<\/a> ,
\nFull Moon<\/a> ,
\nMojo Music<\/a> . However, the large majority
\nare relatively devoid of life. I want to bring life to them, because I
\nwant this to be even better than citysearch, even better than anything
\nelse there is out there as a guide to what is around Boston, and I want
\nto encourage people to use it everywhere.<\/p>\n
\nunneccesary licensing and all the crap that goes along with things like
\nCitySearch and the other similar city directories. More importantly,
\nhowever, I feel that an open source of awesome information on what is in
\nandd around Boston lets people build more interesting things that pull
\nthat data in. I have several personal goals that would use this data,
\nenabling users to get more information about what’s around them at
\nwireless hotspots, or when using a mobile device.<\/p>\n
\nBoston and especially my hometown of Cambridge. I’ve pushed for quite a
\nwhile to get the content to the level it’s at, but I simply can’ty visit
\nevery restaurant in town. I would love to see more interest from
\nexternal parties because it might encourage me to keep on working at
\nwhat seems to be a very gargantuan task of documenting every thing I can
\nin town. An annotated Yellow Pages is a great goal, but requires far
\nmore resources than I can bring to bear.<\/p>\n
\ngoals, if persons are interested in meeting up to do this sometime in
\nthe next couple weeks (or anytime, really). I’d also love to hear what
\nthe Open Guides software isn’t providing that you would like to see: the
\nGoogle Maps component is something that I already put together and
\ncommitted back to the main tree, and I’ve got a couple other hacks in
\nthe guides hosted on my server that aren’t in the main branch.<\/p>\n
\nevangalizing, or suggesting things that might be done better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"