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i am currently undergoing the branding of a place that is in the outskirts of a major city. the situation at hand is that the place is unknown and not easy to get around, so my associates and i have planned to develop a gps application with specifics eg safari lodges, conference venues of this area and make it possible for people to download it onto their smartphones (nokia,iphone and black berry) and be able to navigate their way around.
the issue is how much would it cost to develop such an application and run it?
need an answer ASAP. thanks a mil.
The answer to this question could be 1000$, but it could be 100.000$ as well. There are so many details to a project like this that must be taken into account that it is almost impossible to answer your question more precisely.
To give an example - consider details like (but not only):
who will supply the necessary content
does the content need to be updated on a regular basis -> CMS
should the app navigate the user around in turn-by-turn style or should it be more like an interactive map
These three details alone would make a huge difference. So, the best thing you can do is contact a company or a freelance developer, brief him precisely on the matter and see how much it'll cost you.
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We've made this monitoring tool at our company.
It's not in our line of business so we might as well opensource the tool, and maybe someone else likes it as well, maybe they'll contribute.
The tool runs on AppEngine, so there are so the are some paths in the appengine configuration, that might be a good idea to keep hidden. Unless someone else wants to start using our appengine qouta.
Is there a best practice for open-sourcing AppEngine applications?
Does anyone have any experience to share regarding opensourcing appengine sites?
You can get some ideas from excellent gae-init. The way its working in order to avoid exposing sensitive information, is moving it in a stand alone project, you can even use gae-init for that ;)
As part of the model is a Config class which holds all the information as it concerns the service and its dependencies. There are some default values there but it can also be easily customized from a web interface called admin. Have a look.
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I am creating an app that needs all available US automotive make/models for each year. I have read several suggestions on other posts, like use Freebase or DbPedia or EPA, but those datasets all appear rather incomplete and inconsistent. I checked out open APIs like Edmond's, but they restrict storing their data - I need it in my db, so that doesn't work. Any suggestions where I can get this data without having to shell out money?
Apparently there is not much out there. And a lot of doubt that someone would be willing to provide such a repository. So I solved the problem myself, and am sharing my dataset with anyone else who finds themselves facing the same problem.
https://github.com/n8barr/automotive-model-year-data
These guys have an API that will give the results. It's also free to use.
http://www.carqueryapi.com
Note: they also provide data source download in xls or sql format at a premium price. but these data also provides technical specifications for all the make model and trim options.
How about Freebase? I think they have an API available, too.
http://www.freebase.com/
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I am putting together a little site run on Google App Engine (python27 + django + webapp2). The objective of the site is to serve paid for video tutorials, much like lynda.com.
I'm trying to find the best (and cheapest) way of keeping the videos behind a paywall. In other words a customer is only able to view the videos on my site and if they've paid a subscription.
I've considered simply putting them on GAE, however the recent price increases have made me reluctant to do so and I was wondering if there were any other solutions available?
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You need to authenticate users: implement your own login system or use OpenID (federated login).
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I noticed that http://getchabooks.com has a list of many schools and the classes that they offer. Does anyone know how they get this data? I assume it's through some database, but I could be wrong.
It is most likely through a database. Their database to be precise and I doubt they will let you have access to it.
I found this site which looks pretty legit and offers a CSV or an excel for all accredited Colleges:
http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/GetDownloadFile.aspx
The site does have the disclamer:
The U.S. Department of Education cannot, therefore, guarantee that the
information contained in the database is accurate, current, or
complete.
You could probably come up with a scraper to glean the rest of the information from publicly available sites but you would have to check into the legality of that.
It's not everything but it's a start. Hope this helps!
Tons and tons of manual data entry, and/or negotiations with the specific colleges they support. Not all colleges even have their own databases of classes (and most don't have book information online in any consistent format); there's certainly no central college course catalog database out there.
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I'm working on a web application that is globalized. The development process is agile style, with several sprints already completed. Our globalization framework is good and localization efforts have been successful so far. However, we continue to run into questions during requirements development, particularly in data storage and validation requirements. I'm certain the questions we are wrestling with have been researched and solved many times and the answers are likely well known and documented somewhere. So far, I have been unable to find the compendium of information I'm looking for.
Here are some sample questions I'd like to find answers for:
What are the best practices for input, validation, storage and display of address information for a global application?
number of characters to store for address fields (Did you know there is a city name that contains 163 characters?)
validation of address data
What are the best practices for input, validation, storage and display of phone numbers for a global application?
Same question for a person's name?
So far, our approach to these issues has been to allow ample storage for the various fields and to perform minimal input validation, relying on the user to get it right. This approach is working OK at this stage in the project, but the various project stakeholders are not satisfied using this approach for the long term. There is a strong desire for clean data, efficient storage and attractive data presentation for all locales.
Any recommendations out there for books, papers or websites that have a fairly complete handling of these and related topics?
Lots of good information here.