A little more than a week into the JISC project and I can feel the excitement building already. It was great to finally meet the project team and try to grasp the general and individual ideas.With lots of different perceptions and possible solutions,it promises to be a very interesting project indeed.
While Chengzhi and Darren have been working hard setting up the server, I have been familiarising myself with maps of the target area.A discussion with Chengzhi yesterday about the Interactive Map on the first GUI made a lot of things clearer, especially with the layers and object groups we aim to provide without confusing the end user with too much visual clutter.After detailed thought,the layering for the Interactive Map have been thus decided:
1. Aerial Imagery
2. Text Information (Buildings/Streets)
3. Terrain Information (50x50 grid)
4. Ground Surface Information (50x50 grid)
5. Non University Buildings
6. University Buildings
7. Vegetation (this is still an optional layer depending on information supplied by University Estates)
Also on its way, is a little experimental SVG file with sample data exported from a vector graphic program to check compatibility with Darren's coding.So far, everything is looking good and we are hoping that information from University Estates and ZMapping will also fall into place.
With the server up and running and the team moving to its own office in Crookesmoor building soon, this will be an important week for us.Also our new laptops have just arrived and are being readied by the school's IT doctor Martin, so very soon we will have all the tools handy to go charging into the 6th March deadline!
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