Agnes, My goal is to have all libraries using Koha (and other automation systems) represented in lib-web-cats. In order to show on the map, the entry for the library needs to include the GPS coordinates in its lib-web-cats entry. These are present for most US libraries. I have not been able to add coordinates comprehensively for libraries in many other regions. I'm looking for a web service or some other tool that will reliably convert international addresses to geospatial coordinates. I could then develop a perl script to populate the missing coordinate data for library entries in lib-web-cats. If anyone knows of a good approach for this or can share a perl script to accomplish this, I would be very grateful. Best regards, -marshall -----Original Message----- From: Agnes Rivers-Moore [mailto:arm@hanover.ca] Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:49 AM To: Breeding, Marshall Subject: Re: [Koha] Map of Koha libraries worldwide Hi Marshall, Great job! Just FYI while you are refining it, I notice that of our six consortium libraries, three appear and three do not. Some variation in the way the library address is recorded? Are you taking your map data from the Koha libraries list at http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=kohausers, or from your own database? I imagine you are using your own, which is quite probably more comprehensive for North America, but does not show the South American, European, Australian, New Zealand etc libraries. Agnes Breeding, Marshall wrote:
Nicole,
This is a great suggestion which is now implemented.
-marshall
-----Original Message----- From: Nicole Engard [mailto:nengard@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 9:36 AM To: Breeding, Marshall Cc: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: Re: [Koha] Map of Koha libraries worldwide
Marshall,
This is awesome. I'd say we might want to see color coded icons for different types of libraries (public, special, academic, etc) - since David's mashups were able to show us that information.
Nicole
2010/1/5 Breeding, Marshall <marshall.breeding@vanderbilt.edu>:
There was a thread on this list recently involving the development of a map that displays all libraries using Koha. David Friggens had developed a version using Google maps and data from lib-web-cats, but I think that it involved manually adding entries to the map.
The map for ILS implementations is one example of a more extensive map API that I have created in lib-web-cats that I’m still in the process of documenting.
I have created a new map facility in lib-web-cats that can be used to display such things as all libraries using Koha that are represented in lib-web-cats. It’s still in draft form, but here is the map for Koha libraries:
http://www.librarytechnology.org/map.pl?ILS=Koha
Comments, suggestions, corrections, etc, definitely appreciated.
I hope this is useful.
Best regards,
-marshall
Marshall Breeding
Director for Innovative Technology and Research
Vanderbilt University Library
Editor, Library Technology Guides
http://www.librarytechnology.org
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