A great run!

NetSquared announced the results of the N2Y3 Mashup Challenge and although weMap wasn’t among the top 21 we’re proud of all the hard work that went into our submission. Congratulations to the top 21 teams! With 122 project submitted this year it was great to see so many creative ideas and solutions. Collaboration is a powerful tool and we hope to work with a number of the listed projects.

A very big thank you to everyone who voted for weMap! Go team!

Google Summer of Code 2008 Project Ideas V 2.0

Ok, so our first run has taken a bit of a different path. Although the Python Software Foundation (PSF) was excited about weMap they recommended we approach the TurboGears GSoC team.

With some steering and sound advice from the PSF, the TurboGears team, our mentor Andrey Petrov and Greg Wilson we’re now on our way!
Check out our revised project idea: http://docs.turbogears.org/GSoC/Ideas2008

Google Summer of Code 2008 Project Ideas

The weMap project is applying to Google Summer of Code under the Python Software Foundation.

Here are our project ideas:

Mapping Interface:

• Customizable organizational layers – users can choose
  from a variety of contextually relevant organizational categories to
  appear on the map (i.e. ESL classes, libraries, schools, etc.)
• Search for services by city/region selection or address input
• Select layers and copy a map to embed on another website

Admin Panel Interface:

• Import data from other sources (such as
  census/statistical data) and map data to the central database
• Improve usability

Back-end:

• Deal with multi-level taxonomies
• Handle multiple user levels
• Method for connecting database output to other services
• Increase support for input file formats
• Use multiple geocoding services to increase address searching matches
• Algorithm to optimize searches for duplicate records.

These are just some proposals, feel free to comment and propose some ideas of your own!

Our Netsquared Mashup Submission

And we’re off!!

We’ve submitted our idea to the mashup challenge. Check it out and, if you like it, sign up and vote for us!

weMap: the video

Shamelessly inspired by the amazing folks at Common Craft, we’ve put a little video together as part of our Netsquared Mashup Challenge submission.

weMap is a network of non-profit agencies engaged in sharing organizational databases and online maps highlighting community-based services.

Huh?

We want to make community information easy to find, access, use and customize.

Would you like to know more? Watch:

Full size.

N2Y3 Mashup Challenge

We’re submitting to the Netsquared Mashup Challenge. Wish us luck! Better yet, vote for our submission!