I was able to talk today with Beth Surrell from Tritonlink, who is putting me in contact with the programmer who created MapLink. Interestingly, MapLink was built by a student who just recently got hired on to work full time for Tritonlink. I'm still waiting for the communications to filter through, but hopefully we can begin working on that part of it soon.
In class on tuesday the Google Maps presentation gave me a lot of new ideas about the ways we can use Google Maps in our interface. The draggable marker could easily be used for a person to set their location graphically, making data validation much easier. We can be relatively confident that the latitude and longitude of a GMarker is valid; with text input we need to run the geocoding function and check to see if we get lat/long values back. Potentially this could also be used for community geocoding: users type in something textually, and if we/google don't recognize the location, we can say "okay, find it on a map for us". Then they will drag the marker to the correct place on the map, and we can store that data in a separate table for the next time that user, or indeed any user wants to use that location.
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