Hey Everyone - long time no chat. I''m ecstatic the community has continued to thrive & grow. Thank you very much! Over a year ago Ed made us a nice new homepage, but unfortunately deploying to it still required doing it from my personal hosting account. Ergo, no updates since that time. So I finally dove in and got up to speed on Jekyll and how to host pages on Github. The result was a quick port of the homepage. Right now I just have it on the github.com domain - but it''s possible to CNAME it so that it would be the http://mapstraction.com page as well. http://mapstraction.github.com/ The useful capability here is that we can allow certain users the ability to update and publish to the Mapstraction.com site. That way it would rely on me having to do a code pull each time we wanted to update it. For example, updating the supported providers, "features matrix", changelog, etc. You can even do blog posts. Anyways, I hope this is useful and will open up updates and excitement about Mapstraction. If everything looks ok - I can move the CNAME for mapstraction.com. The one thing out there are the "old" demos that probably should be updated in the Sandbox repository - https://github.com/mapstraction/sandbox Thanks! Andrew -- Andrew Turner mobile: 248.982.3609 andrew at fortiusone.com http://highearthorbit.com http://geocommons.com? ? ? ? ?? Helping build the Geospatial Web Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography
Andrew, this is excellent work and excellent news. One question ... Do we really want to continue to use Google App Engine to host the sandbox? I''d love to contribute new sandbox examples but realistically don''t have the time to learn App Engine as well as work on the MXN stuff I''m getting into a state worth contributing. G Sent from one of my mobile gadgets ... On 22 Oct 2011, at 18:07, Andrew Turner <ajturner at highearthorbit.com> wrote:> Hey Everyone - long time no chat. I''m ecstatic the community has > continued to thrive & grow. Thank you very much! > > Over a year ago Ed made us a nice new homepage, but unfortunately > deploying to it still required doing it from my personal hosting > account. Ergo, no updates since that time. > > So I finally dove in and got up to speed on Jekyll and how to host > pages on Github. The result was a quick port of the homepage. Right > now I just have it on the github.com domain - but it''s possible to > CNAME it so that it would be the http://mapstraction.com page as well. > > http://mapstraction.github.com/ > > The useful capability here is that we can allow certain users the > ability to update and publish to the Mapstraction.com site. That way > it would rely on me having to do a code pull each time we wanted to > update it. For example, updating the supported providers, "features > matrix", changelog, etc. You can even do blog posts. > > Anyways, I hope this is useful and will open up updates and excitement > about Mapstraction. If everything looks ok - I can move the CNAME for > mapstraction.com. The one thing out there are the "old" demos that > probably should be updated in the Sandbox repository - > https://github.com/mapstraction/sandbox > > Thanks! > Andrew > > -- > Andrew Turner > mobile: 248.982.3609 > andrew at fortiusone.com > http://highearthorbit.com > > http://geocommons.com Helping build the Geospatial Web > Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography > _______________________________________________ > Mapstraction mailing list > Mapstraction at lists.mapstraction.com > http://lists.mapstraction.com/listinfo.cgi/mapstraction-mapstraction.com
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Gary Gale <gary at vicchi.org> wrote:> Andrew, this is excellent work and excellent news.Thanks Gary.> One question ... Do we really want to continue to use Google App Engine to host the sandbox? I''d love to contribute new sandbox examples but realistically don''t have the time to learn App Engine as well as work on the MXN stuff I''m getting into a state worth contributing.Well, it''s difficult to beat the overall layout and functionality of the GAE Sandbox: http://mapstraction.appspot.com/ I agree that learning GAE is dauting - but fortunately unnecessary. You just have to add your specific HTML and JS files in the appropriate place - nothing else GAE specific. Currently, to add examples you have you HTML here: https://github.com/mapstraction/sandbox/tree/master/samples/boilerplateHTML/mapstraction and if you need JS add it here: https://github.com/mapstraction/sandbox/tree/master/samples/js/mapstraction and lastly update the Table of Contents here: https://github.com/mapstraction/sandbox/blob/master/samples/TOC/mapstraction_api_samples.js Would it be possible to update those? It''s probably possible to ''port'' this all to just plain JS that can be hosted by Github as well. Andrew> > Sent from one of my mobile gadgets ... > > On 22 Oct 2011, at 18:07, Andrew Turner <ajturner at highearthorbit.com> wrote: > >> Hey Everyone - long time no chat. I''m ecstatic the community has >> continued to thrive & grow. Thank you very much! >> >> Over a year ago Ed made us a nice new homepage, but unfortunately >> deploying to it still required doing it from my personal hosting >> account. Ergo, no updates since that time. >> >> So I finally dove in and got up to speed on Jekyll and how to host >> pages on Github. The result was a quick port of the homepage. Right >> now I just have it on the github.com domain - but it''s possible to >> CNAME it so that it would be the http://mapstraction.com page as well. >> >> ?http://mapstraction.github.com/ >> >> The useful capability here is that we can allow certain users the >> ability to update and publish to the Mapstraction.com site. That way >> it would rely on me having to do a code pull each time we wanted to >> update it. For example, updating the supported providers, "features >> matrix", changelog, etc. You can even do blog posts. >> >> Anyways, I hope this is useful and will open up updates and excitement >> about Mapstraction. If everything looks ok - I can move the CNAME for >> mapstraction.com. The one thing out there are the "old" demos that >> probably should be updated in the Sandbox repository - >> https://github.com/mapstraction/sandbox >> >> Thanks! >> Andrew >> >> -- >> Andrew Turner >> mobile: 248.982.3609 >> andrew at fortiusone.com >> http://highearthorbit.com >> >> http://geocommons.com ? ? ? ? ? Helping build the Geospatial Web >> Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography >> _______________________________________________ >> Mapstraction mailing list >> Mapstraction at lists.mapstraction.com >> http://lists.mapstraction.com/listinfo.cgi/mapstraction-mapstraction.com > _______________________________________________ > Mapstraction mailing list > Mapstraction at lists.mapstraction.com > http://lists.mapstraction.com/listinfo.cgi/mapstraction-mapstraction.com >-- Andrew Turner mobile: 248.982.3609 andrew at fortiusone.com http://highearthorbit.com http://geocommons.com? ? ? ? ?? Helping build the Geospatial Web Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography
Hi Andrew, Le 22/10/2011 19:07, Andrew Turner a ?crit :> > So I finally dove in and got up to speed on Jekyll and how to host > pages on Github. The result was a quick port of the homepage. Right > now I just have it on the github.com domain - but it''s possible to > CNAME it so that it would be the http://mapstraction.com page as well. > > http://mapstraction.github.com/Great ! Thanks for that. I still have the project to work on a new design for mapstration.com on a todolist, i hop to have time to do it one of these days...> > The useful capability here is that we can allow certain users the > ability to update and publish to the Mapstraction.com site. That way > it would rely on me having to do a code pull each time we wanted to > update it. For example, updating the supported providers, "features > matrix", changelog, etc. You can even do blog posts. > > Anyways, I hope this is useful and will open up updates and excitement > about Mapstraction. If everything looks ok - I can move the CNAME for > mapstraction.com. The one thing out there are the "old" demos that > probably should be updated in the Sandbox repository - > https://github.com/mapstraction/sandboxSeems ok to move the cname on the domain. Just a small bug since this modification, the online api doc is not there anymore form the wiki pages : https://github.com/mapstraction/mxn/wiki/ point to : http://mapstraction.github.com/mxn/build/latest/docs/ ++ b_b
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 10:06 AM, bruno bergot <brunobergot at gmail.com> wrote:> Seems ok to move the cname on the domain. > > Just a small bug since this modification, the online api doc is not there > anymore form the wiki pages : > > https://github.com/mapstraction/mxn/wiki/ > > point to : > > http://mapstraction.github.com/mxn/build/latest/docs/ >Good catch. I think that''s because I setup the "root" mapstraction.github.com project. Let me see if I can move that to another project but still have the CNAME support work. I definitely like the build docs coming from the main repository. Andrew -- Andrew Turner mobile: 248.982.3609 andrew at fortiusone.com http://highearthorbit.com http://geocommons.com? ? ? ? ?? Helping build the Geospatial Web Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography