"An API for your city" - LocalWiki API released

Re:"An API for your city" - LocalWiki API released by dashr on Friday August 31, 2012 @06:46PM (#4462004)

Great work LocalWiki. This is a good way to build hyperlocal mobile/sms apps. I find myself usually scraping data off wikis, massaging it a bit, then building my own api endpoint to feed the mobile app.

I hope this one linked here is actually being built, can see a lot of folks re-using it. https://trianglewiki.org/Wanderful_App

Next step is to build a mobile app that feeds data back in (POST/PUT). Like YokoZar points out, it's a Sales task, not necessarily a difficult technical one.

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Re:"An API for your city" - LocalWiki API released by carlyle on Friday August 31, 2012 @08:14PM (#4462231)

You are in luck! I'm one of the developers working on the Wanderful app and it is very much being built. You can check us out at http://wanderful.co/

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Re:"An API for your city" - LocalWiki API released by dashr on Friday August 31, 2012 @09:16PM (#4462339)

Cool, just installed it. Can you say anything about the platform it was built on, Cordova?

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Re:"An API for your city" - LocalWiki API released by carlyle on Sunday September 02, 2012 @01:01PM (#4467466)

The current version of the app was built with Titanium, but I'm not sure that I can recommend it for nontrivial apps. The API still has plenty of gaps and the platform isn't as 'cross-platform' as we had hoped (there are plenty of controls and properties that are platform-specific.)

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