ebenoist / mapa

Mapa

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ETIMOLOGÍA Elisión (s. xvi) de mapa (mundi), préstamo (s. xvi) del latín mappa (mundi) ‘mapa (del mundo)’; compuesto de mappa ‘pañuelo’, ‘servilleta’, por el lienzo que se empleó antiguamente para hacer mapas, y mundi ‘del mundo’.

So, what is it, really?

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Mapa will serve JSON data from openpaths as a slippery map.

Goals

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1. Import data from an existing openpaths dataset.
2. Store data in mongo as GeoJSON.
3. Display dataset via a RESTful API.
4. Provide a view layer using D3, Leaflet, or polymaps.
5. All elixir backend.
6. All JS (probably backbone) frontend.
7. Learn, a lot.

Open Questions

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1. How do you deploy dynamo? Is there something capistrano like? Is it not unlike deploying a WAR to tomcat? What is the erlang daemon? nginx -> dynamo?!
2. Can dynamo be used with HAML? Is there a HAML interpreter?
3. Do I need to build an interface for mongo?