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Notes: Capital Ring, habitat
Completed the Capital Ring. Last 3 stages were a bit epic - about 19 miles in one day. Nearly walked into a deer.
The Capital Ring is well worth the effort, but there’s a total lack of good online information about it. It’s crying out for a dedicated wiki of tips, being able to link to each stage, open GPX tracks.
Off work this week, mostly working on habitat. I now have a working example client for posting location data, and for editing scenarios.
Both are written in Backbone.js, which I still haven’t fully got my head around.
I ended up slightly hacking the oAuth workflow - since the habitat server is self hosted, the idea of issuing client ids, then adding those to the client, then giving permission is a bit odd. So, for now at least, the clients can choose their own.
Notes: 5 - 9th May 2014
Walked stages 9 and 8 of the Capital Ring South Kenton to Osterly (3 more to go).
Final show and tell of the Land Registry concept.
More work on habitat - a personal, programable datastore (or that’s what it is untill I have a better desceiption). I got oAuth working using Flask oAuthLib. So you can now allow clients types of access to specific resources.
Julian was down from Liverpool, so took him to visit South London Makerspace.
Saw Mountain of Love (Eddie & Piers, formerly of Alabama 3) at Jamm.