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August 14, 2006
Go-live date, second deployment and other stuff
Well it's been a longer than expected road but we're nearly there. Our staging instance is running something that is 99.9% of a production branch. We would have gone live on Friday but staffing shortages mean it's going to be Tuesday now...
In other news we're working on a second instance of the platform, this one to support work Greenpeace will be doing in the middle east in the wake of the Lebanon crisis. You can read more about that project at it's holding site at www.speakup-middleeast.org . Hopefully that site will be up and running by the end of this week.
We've also been working hard to import our geo-data into the system. The GNS data we've been working with varies widely in quality. Some countries (eg Australia) can be pulled seamlessly out of the database, others (eg. Israel) suffer from duplicate or missing administration districts which has necessitated some manual fixes. The GNS data provides about ten times more data than the initial Geo-Rosetta data we deployed, so it's worth the hassle to get it in there.
Still, nearly there...
Posted by Martin Lloyd at August 14, 2006 10:56 AM
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Thought I'd have a quick look, but got a "Could not import DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE 'melt.settings'" error :)
Posted by: Nick at August 14, 2006 5:19 PM
Are you going to make available the GNS data with the program too?
This is important if you wan't to use the multiplier factor that making the software vailable as GPL will induce.
Best.
Posted by: Lopo at August 20, 2006 2:36 AM
On the site, or when trying to do work with the code?
Posted by: Martin at August 21, 2006 3:09 PM
You should look at http://geonames.org They started with GNIS, but have added a ton more, and even have a bit of user contribution to add more names. But they key thing is they have web apis and also export the whole data set on a regular basis. I'm not sure how much they've cleaned up GNIS but I imagine their dataset is a decent bit nicer and I know it's bigger.
Posted by: Chris Holmes at August 28, 2006 9:01 PM
Hi Chris, thanks, very nice to see the downloads and dumps are now available too! As we had some people here already up to their neck in the pile of geodata we collected, we'll have a good look at this once the dust settles a little. Good pointer!
Posted by: Rolf Kleef at August 29, 2006 12:01 PM