MickaelMaison.com » GSoC http://www.mickaelmaison.com Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:22:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Summer of Code 2007 – Geo Component http://www.mickaelmaison.com/projects/summer-of-code-2007-geo-component/ http://www.mickaelmaison.com/projects/summer-of-code-2007-geo-component/#comments Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:51:17 +0000 Mickael http://www.mickaelmaison.com/?p=60 In 2007, in participated to the Google Summer of Code as a student. I was selected by the open source project Joomla! for developing a set of tools which will turn it into a Geographical Content Management System. The idea of the project came when I was working in GIS in the Ordnance Survey.

I had the chance to have Andrew Eddie as mentor. Andrew is a core member of the project and was the lead developer of Mambo before the fork. Despite the fact we are living at opposite position on Earth, which is not the best to communicate, I thank him for his support and help during the project.

The project was called GeoComponent and has the following features:

  • Articles can be geotagged
  • Profiles can be geotagged
  • Different ways of geo tagging can be provided as plugins (Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, etc)

This was develop for Joomla! 1.5 and therefore is not compatible with 1.0. The code can be found on JoomlaForge under the Summer of Code 2007 project. The name of the tracker is JGEO.

The original proposal can be found here.

The project was successfully completed and I was invited to join the Development Working Group.

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