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From BeauGunderson

Contents 1 Jump-offs 2 In the mail 3 To mail 4 Current Projects 5 Deferred Projects 5.1 For nuclear graph 6 Organization 7 Fixin' stuff 8 For mapping 8.1 Google Earth 8.2 Google Maps State-based Statistics 8.3 Other possible Google Maps Overlays 9 Stay on the lookout for

[edit] Jump-offs

• Books

[edit] In the mail

[edit] To mail

Nothing.

[edit] Current Projects

• BLaS website
  • BLaS Website Component List
  • By Land and Sea
• My Garden Nursery website
• Joe Frank website
• Things to eBay
• Treknologies
• Genealogy
• Intarrest

[edit] Deferred Projects

• WorldWiki
  • Wiki where the interface is a world map, users can collaboratively create datasets and export them in CSV, SHP, etc. formats
• Wikibase? Public database where users can edit fields?
  • Same thing for maps, imagine someone who wants to compile a list of mobile phone standards in use by country; have the interface be a world map with clickable countries
  • Someone beat me to it, freebase
• Wiki ideas
  • Track 'market failures' and solutions
  • Track responses to emails asking the recipient to sign legislation to socialize something (healthcare, etc.)
• The Windows Quicksilver Wishlist
• Maya Particle Caching Project
• Photag Firefox Extension
• c# app to grab user's calendars and then provide a bevy of reminder plugins
  • flash lights, popup windows, midi control, batch files, etc.
  • http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/developers_guide_dotnet.html

[edit] For nuclear graph

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Non-Proliferation_Treaty
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_nuclear_weapons

[edit] Organization

• Small parts of songs that have changed my life
• The big list
• The next twenty years
• 12/2006 New York Trip

[edit] Fixin' stuff

• http://help.lockergnome.com/lofiversion/index.php/t29660.html
• http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;307545

[edit] For mapping

• http://www.mapki.com/index.php?title=Add_Your_Own_Custom_Map
• http://blog.kylemulka.com/?p=287
• http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/reference.html#GProjection

[edit] Google Earth

• Make a generic page for inputting state data in XML or CSV and generating a KML choropleth map?
• Graph senate/house votes provided in their respective XML format?
  • RSS feed; "CamelCasting"
  • http://www.govtrack.us/sparql.xpd
  • http://www.govtrack.us/source.xpd
  • http://www.govtrack.us/rdfbrowse.xpd?uri=tag%3agovshare.info%2c2005%3adata%2fus%2fcongress%2f108%2fhouse%2fvotes%2f2003-61
  • http://www.govtrack.us/rdfbrowse.xpd?uri=tag%3agovshare.info%2c2005%3adata%2fus%2fcongress%2fpeople%2fA000055
  • http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2006/02/08/govtrack-us-public-data-semantic-web.html?page=2
  • Original data
    • http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=2&vote=00263
    • http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/index.asp
  • PHP
    • http://sites.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/rdfapi/index.html
    • http://sites.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/rdfapi/tutorial/usingtheSparqlClient.htm

Current best option:

PREFIX rdf:  <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
PREFIX foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/>
PREFIX dc:   <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/>
PREFIX pol:  <tag:govshare.info,2005:rdf/politico/>
PREFIX vote: <tag:govshare.info,2005:rdf/vote/>
PREFIX time: <http://pervasive.semanticweb.org/ont/2004/06/time#>

SELECT * WHERE {
   <tag:govshare.info,2005:data/us/congress/109/senate/votes/2006-126> vote:hasBallot ?ballot .
   
   ?ballot     vote:voter     ?voter;
               vote:option    ?position.

   ?voter      foaf:name      ?name;
               pol:hasRole [ 
                  time:to [ time:at ?enddate ];
                  pol:forOffice [ pol:represents ?state ]
               ].

   ?state      dc:title       ?stateName.

   FILTER(?enddate = "2006-12-31" || ?enddate = "2008-12-31" || ?enddate = "2010-12-31").
}

[edit] Google Maps State-based Statistics

• Make a set of state overlays
• How many shades?
• How many detail levels?
• What to use for data source?
  • ArcGIS data
  • Tiger/LINE
• Breaks?
  • Natural breaks, quantile, etc.

[edit] Other possible Google Maps Overlays

• Countries
• United States Counties

[edit] Stay on the lookout for

• Denis Wood's Boylan Heights map book