Comments on: Promoting Cycling http://mashupaustralia.org/mashups/transport/promoting-cycling/ An initiative of the Government 2.0 Taskforce Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:39:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: J Parker http://mashupaustralia.org/mashups/transport/promoting-cycling/comment-page-1/#comment-397 J Parker Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:07:45 +0000 http://mashupaustralia.org/?p=671#comment-397 Hi Adam It's good to see you were disappointed. I am as well. As stated: "The aim of this exercise is to simply encourage Government to make cycling routes available on line as a Web Map Service". I was trying to demonstrate potential usage if the data were available. I have looked into this further and have mashed up some of the same stuff into OpenLayers that may demonstrate further possibilities - look at both the <a href="http://www.bigyak.net.au/bike/vicbiketrailsol.html?zoom=11&lat=-37.81358&lon=144.96334&layers=B00000TFTTT" rel="nofollow">Melbourne Map</a> and the <a href="http://www.bigyak.net.au/bike/vicbiketrailsol.html?zoom=13&lat=-33.87611&lon=151.18126&layers=B00000TFTTT" rel="nofollow">Sydney Map</a>. That's probably what you're after? OpenLayers is pretty versatile but is very slow in operation, particularly for WFS serving many features. For serious work Google Earth is miles ahead and allows for "dynamic" mashing. It can also directly use any WMS server that may be set up by a Government department. That's all I'm trying to achieve here - online cycling maps provided by the Government as a WMS. ie a good baselayer for further mashups. Hi Adam
It’s good to see you were disappointed. I am as well. As stated: “The aim of this exercise is to simply encourage Government to make cycling routes available on line as a Web Map Service”. I was trying to demonstrate potential usage if the data were available. I have looked into this further and have mashed up some of the same stuff into OpenLayers that may demonstrate further possibilities – look at both the Melbourne Map and the Sydney Map. That’s probably what you’re after? OpenLayers is pretty versatile but is very slow in operation, particularly for WFS serving many features. For serious work Google Earth is miles ahead and allows for “dynamic” mashing. It can also directly use any WMS server that may be set up by a Government department. That’s all I’m trying to achieve here – online cycling maps provided by the Government as a WMS. ie a good baselayer for further mashups.

]]> By: Adam Kennedy http://mashupaustralia.org/mashups/transport/promoting-cycling/comment-page-1/#comment-396 Adam Kennedy Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:58:24 +0000 http://mashupaustralia.org/?p=671#comment-396 This site left me really dissapointed. The first thing I saw when I arrived was a hugely exciting 3d interface to bike routes in my city... which was a non-working screenshot capture. I was then faced by a wall of text I had to dig through to find what I was supposed to use, then required to download Google earth and load in the KML sets myself, for which small links are embedded in the wall of text. I hesitate to say it, but this single HTML page of text doesn't really seem to belong in the competition. The site means well, but needs MASSIVE amounts of work on approachable'ness and usability. Loading up Google Earth should be a secondary option, not the only option. This site left me really dissapointed.

The first thing I saw when I arrived was a hugely exciting 3d interface to bike routes in my city… which was a non-working screenshot capture.

I was then faced by a wall of text I had to dig through to find what I was supposed to use, then required to download Google earth and load in the KML sets myself, for which small links are embedded in the wall of text.

I hesitate to say it, but this single HTML page of text doesn’t really seem to belong in the competition.

The site means well, but needs MASSIVE amounts of work on approachable’ness and usability. Loading up Google Earth should be a secondary option, not the only option.

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