OpenStreetMap Gopher Gateway

(I was really really really bored! �)

OpenStreetMap Gopher Gateway

07/07/12

François Revol - [email protected] - CC-by-sa

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Gopher? ●

You know, the thing before the Web...

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Directory-like presentation

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Current root server: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/ Still relevant ●

Twitter gateway

OpenStreetMap Gopher Gateway

07/07/12

François Revol - [email protected] - CC-by-sa

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Gopher Browser? ●

Lynx

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Firefox: internal support removed ●

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OverbiteFF plugin

NetSurf ●

Branch not yet integrated

OpenStreetMap Gopher Gateway

07/07/12

François Revol - [email protected] - CC-by-sa

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Implementation ●

Python add-on to pyGopherD

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Fetches the current tile by http to serve it back

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http://revolf.free.fr/linux/osm.pyg

OpenStreetMap Gopher Gateway

07/07/12

François Revol - [email protected] - CC-by-sa

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TODO ●

Put it on git{orious|hub|...}

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More error handling

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Handle different tile servers

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Cache tiles

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Use ImageMagick to join tiles?

OpenStreetMap Gopher Gateway

07/07/12

François Revol - [email protected] - CC-by-sa

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Looks like this

OpenStreetMap Gopher Gateway

07/07/12

François Revol - [email protected] - CC-by-sa

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