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RE: VE itineraries

From: Stuart Williams <captain_nemo~at~btinternet.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 19:32:50 +0100
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

Garmt, looking at what you say it seems best if your interactive charts
remain on your web space where you can make whatever amendments are
required.

On the other hand I could,as you suggest, host the PDF Atlas, and we could
add in connections to Sean's development of this work on his site.

I see no reason why there should not be a hub or 'portal' linking several
sites in a joint unified atlas site. This would have the advantage that
with attention being split up between the servers depending on what people
are browsing, there would be no slowing down as there might be with one site
in (hopefully!) great demand.

I would be happy to set up such a portal if all are agreeable. In line with
your suggestion of using a domain such as www.verneatlas.org which is a good
idea, I have taken the liberty of registering with my usual free web space
provider the subdomain www.verneatlas.f2s.com which comes with 20mb of free
independent web space and no banner or advertising requirements. If using
this location as a hub or common entry point to link the other cartographic
elements together meets with the approval of all concerned, then we can
proceed on that basis. All being well there will be sufficient space on
that server to host the full PDF Atlas.

We can of course add whatever elements we wish on the various servers we all
have whenever we wish to.

All this looks tying together quite nicely if we divide things up suitably.
Do we think this offers scope for a long-term ongoing joint Vernean
cartography project? At this point we have three major facets: 1. Ron's
Atlas, 2. Your animated itineraries, Garmt. 3. Sean's work and any
undersea mapping aspects we can build in. More could be added over time,
and other sites potentially linked in, including those which are not
specifically Vernian but have relevance such as mapping and marine sites,
geological sites, tourist sites relating to Verne locations etc etc.

If so, it occurs to me to wonder if it would be worth putting it under the
'umbrella' of an informal, international, exclusively net-based 'Jules Verne
Cartography Research Group' which would require no formal organisation, just
agreement between contributors and networking our ideas. Each linked site
could carry a group logo or some such.

Still, I'm not definitively saying we must do any of this - just a few
suggestions for discussion and I am happy to 'go with the flow' and whatever
the consensus is :-)

Stuart

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il
[mailto:owner-jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il]On Behalf Of Garmt de Vries
Sent: 10 July 2001 17:43
To: Jules Verne Forum
Subject: RE: VE itineraries
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Stuart Williams wrote:
> If Garmt and Sean are agreeable, we could also tie in the present and
> proposed web-based charts, both surface and undersea, forming the hub of a
> Verne Atlas Project.  What do people think?
Sure, why not? Question is, where would we host it? If you put everything
on the JVS(GB) site, I couldn't change the script anymore. We could split
it up, so you could host the pdf versions of Ron's maps (which I can
hardly wait to see!) and I host the interactive maps. Or we could claim
the domain www.verneatlas.org or something like that. Would that be free
and easy to do?
regards,
Garmt.

Received on Tue 10 Jul 2001 - 21:28:50 IDT

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