FOSS4G'13

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Location maps on the web

Posted by Barry Rowlingson on August 28, 2013

I had a play with leaflet and have embedded a map on the location pages, such as:
http://2013.foss4g.org/conf/programme/locations/auditorium/

Note his map is not hyperlinked - locations are actually individual rooms and this is a map of buildings. Links to this map page come from presentation pages such as http://2013.foss4g.org/conf/programme/presentations/123/

Can ppl test this in safari, ie, iOS? Screenshot attached.

Comments

Rollo Home on August 29, 2013:

That is excellent - I am worried about people getting lost and anything like this will be a help - IF people know that it's there to use that is. Something to add to the logistics talk by Steve me thinks.

It works on IE. and on the iphone...(but no turn-by-turn? Make it so ;-)

Barry Rowlingson on August 29, 2013:

I did ask for someone to give directions from EMCC to Clive Granger. It looks like "Go through the car park, cross the millenium gardens, and then follow the OpenStreetMap red ant tracks east" is as far as I got.

Maybe our Nottingham-based committee members are off at conferences or motorbiking round the world so much they don't know their own campus :)

People will have the map on the programme (and on the lanyard too?) and there will be seven hundred people scurrying back and forth as well as our red-shirts so I'm not worried about anyone accidentally wandering off and falling in the pond. At least not while sober.

Mark Iliffe on August 29, 2013:

I'm recovering from writing off my motorbike and being dragged around a ferry and Jeremy I think is at ICA. A more correct version would be "...Go through the car park, cross the millennium gardens, walk past the Hallward Library onto Cut Through Lane. Continue down Cut Through Lane, down the hill, the Sir Clive Granger building will be on your left. 

Barry Rowlingson on August 29, 2013:

Thx Mark, hope you aren't too damaged physically or mentally by the bike trauma.

Jeremy Morley on August 29, 2013:

I think it's more direct going up the hill past the hotel & over the Downs, but it's more difficult to describe as a lot of it's on unsigned footpaths.

Barry Rowlingson on August 29, 2013:

You know the Americans are going to complain we don't build everything on a grid system...

Jeremy Morley on August 29, 2013:

Just remember that this will be a public archive once we're done, Barry... ;-)

Mark Iliffe on August 29, 2013:

@Jeremy, I agree with you, however, I think using landmarks works better. We could sign post if they want to go over the downs?

Jeremy Morley on August 29, 2013:

You might think so, I couldn't possibly comment, Barry!

Steven Feldman on August 29, 2013:

Hopefully we can have loads of laminated A4 posters with arrows pointing the route out.

Someone needs to work out what signs we want and get them printed off for laminating on the Monday and then get them fixed up (possibly a Monday volunteer task?)

Could someone who has less of an overload of taskks already pitch in and say I will do that (hint hint)

Mark Iliffe on August 29, 2013:

Steven, sign me up.

Rollo Home on August 30, 2013:

Mark - what happened to the bike (and you - obviously) and was it connected to the ferry in some way?