New Website location, finished updating of woodward junction files ot 7-digit format

The website is now sitting at http://www.viscenter.uncc.edu/nij-gis/home.htm which is where it will be hosted from now on. The link to this blogs feed is also available from this index page. I hope to start finalizing the design of the site by next week and have more content available.

I have also finished updating the junction file for woodward hall to reflect the new 7-digit identifier code that Jianfei and I came up with. It seems he has also been able to load the cameron database in his graph program with only a few errors. I am in the process of working these out and hope to have a final display by the end of the week.

All CRI files completed

I have finally finished uploading the last of the files to the PostGIS database for CRI building. The junction files contained also have the new annotation that we have developed, even though it's much more time consuming and a bit redundant.

Some things that still need to be done are:

• Finish up web page design, and secure space on the webserver for this page to be stored on
• Eliminate errors from the datasets as we come across them
• Change the woodward junction file so that it has the new annotation that Jianfei's program will support
• Get the Interoperability extension working so I can read/write directly to the PostGIS database
  

Collaboration Ideas and Progress on CRI

Today I have been working on the completion of the entire cameron dataset. The only things left to do is to create and annotate the junction files for the graph model and do some cleanup. I also need to add a few things to each file such as floor number columns and the name of the building itself. There are also several errors (specifically cameron_flr1_strwys) that need to be taken care of. I hope to finish this dataset and have it in PostGIS by Monday.

I would also like to be able to connect directly to the database using ArcCatalog to that I will not have to go through the trouble of SSHing into the server using a virtual machine and copy the files up from there.

Some other things that I have discovered today are very important and I need to start emailing people for input. The main things I discovered are two web sites: http://www.gita.org/ and http://www.opengeospatial.org . These web sites have a ton of information about the standards used for CAD/GIS integration, indoor GIS, emergency management, and other resources that would be very useful for the project. There are also listservs that I can start using to contact people about questions related to our project. Some other interesting things are also available such as standard data models for the type of data we are using and links to projects and people that will definatly be able to help now and in the future.