Re: [tlug] Heading to Akihabara

[Alain Hoang <hoanga@example.com>]

Josh Glover wrote:

> The code that powers my "Gaijin's Guide to Central Yokohama" is
> available, under the BSD licence, here:
>
> http://www.jmglov.net/src/gmaps_jmglov-gg2cy-1.0.0.tgz
>
>  
   Way cool.  I might take a poke at it a little later.

> All we would need it some way of allowing TLUGgers to submit new
> marker data for inclusion in the database, and a way of voting on
> markers (and collecting and displaying the popularity data). I would
> be more than happy to implement that stuff in my code.
>
>  


> Another neat feature that I was planning of implementing is allowing a
> marker to have photos associated with it, so camera-crazed TLUGgers
> (Lyle, I'm talking about you! ;) can link their photos to the map.
>
>  
   Photos would be actually quite helpful for showing some pics of not 
easy to find places.
I lost count of the number of times I had a map in hand walking around 
Tokyo and still
walkedaround a building at least 4 times before I realized I had reached 
my destination
at least 4 detour circles ago :)

> >    That is a very cool setup by the way.  But you need more game shops
> > listed ;-)
> >    
>
> Give me lat/long coordinates and I'll add them to my XML file. :)
>
>  
   I'll send them along as I dig them up.  Wish I had a handheld GPS 
unit...

> Which sort of gaming did you mean? Pen-and-paper RPGs / collectable
> card games / tabletop wargames? Or video games?
>
>  
   Being a (former) video gamer I would be looking more for video 
games.  But I figure
all type of games wouldn't be a bad thing at all.  It's not like 
Yokohama is swimming in
gaming stores or maybe I'm just not looking hard enough.


Alain