web API and WFS
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:46 pm
I've been writing clients to interact with the WiGLE database, and I wrote some information about that
http://wigle.net/wiki/index.cgi?API
but UhTu insists that that API is going to change, and will break all the clients written to that API. Is anyone planning a stable REST-ful web API? If no, why not? I'd like to integrate the data from WiGLE into some mapping applications other than JiGLE, so a stable cgi interface to the database would be really helpful for data output in XML/RDF or even CSV.
Another thing that would be amazing is a WFS/WMS implementation on the database, then the access points could rendered with clients like NASA's WorldWind, so you'd see a space flyby with the results of our warbiking efforts.
http://wigle.net/wiki/index.cgi?API
but UhTu insists that that API is going to change, and will break all the clients written to that API. Is anyone planning a stable REST-ful web API? If no, why not? I'd like to integrate the data from WiGLE into some mapping applications other than JiGLE, so a stable cgi interface to the database would be really helpful for data output in XML/RDF or even CSV.
Another thing that would be amazing is a WFS/WMS implementation on the database, then the access points could rendered with clients like NASA's WorldWind, so you'd see a space flyby with the results of our warbiking efforts.