[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] State of the map of Evergreen libraries?

[Ben Hyman]

Dan - so sagacious. Bob too.
Love the proposed approach to map updating you've laid out here Dan.
bh

On 2012-05-09, at 11:53 AM, Dan Scott wrote:

> On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 02:29:43PM -0400, Tony Bandy wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> At the risk of being the cause of too much email in folk's inboxes, could
>> COOL be added as well (server maintained @OHIONET in Col. Ohio, several
>> libraries around the state)?  We're two libraries strong and counting, with
>> 8 in the consortium by next year.  Here's our catalog:  http://cool-cat.org
>> Here's our consortial map:  http://info.cool-cat.org/?page_id=13
> 
> I don't think it's too much email yet :) There are probably a couple of
> things we want to address in the near future...
> 
> 1) Process for adding Evergreen libraries to the map. Maybe updating
> http://evergreen-ils.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=evergreen_libraries could
> / should be step one (only a wiki account is required!), but we don't
> have coordinates there currently, just a rough location field. Then
> perhaps map updaters could follow the revisions to that page and update
> a centralized KML file accordingly.
> 
> In passing, I will also note that a lot of the info appears to be out of
> date on that wiki page - for example, Conifer has about twice as many
> libraries and is running on much newer versions of the software than is
> listed; maybe we can tie updating this info into conference
> registration, or something like that, so at least there's a chance that
> it will be updated on an annual basis.
> 
> 2) Handling consortia vs. individual libraries. Do we want to try to
> plot each library in a given consortia on the map, or just one entry for
> a given consortia? I think I would prefer to see one entry per library,
> as the full might of PINES' nearly 300 libraries would stand out, or
> Conifer's > 1000km stretch from Windsor to Thunder Bay.
> 
> 3) Canonical location for the map data; Jason Etheridge has uploaded a
> copy of Bob Molyneux's KML file to the Evergreen Website git repository
> (but maybe the "random" evergreen repo would be a better spot on a
> going-forward basis? but then again git is a significant hurdle for
> many), I suspect Ben is currently editing his copy live for now, Jeff
> Godin thought maybe an online spreadsheet would be easier for people to
> contribute to, there's also the possibility of adding coordinates to the
> wiki page...
> 
> It's such a deceptively simple project, with a strong emphasis on
> "deceipt". Many thanks in retrospect to all of Bob Molyneux's effort in
> having kept this up to date in the past!