December 11th, 2008
aaron
Watch out Hopstop! I wrote a Graph lib in python along with heuristic hSLD A* search and brought it to life with google maps and Ajax. The library is running as a json-rpc service with mod_python. The next step is to use geocoding api to turn street addresses to lat and lon coordinates and integrate it to find starting and ending stations, fun fun fun.
Maybe Ill put this on google app engine if I get alot of hits.
http://www.dancygier.com/nycsubway
Categories: Python, Software development Tags: googlemaps, javascript, new york, nyc, Python, route, route finder, route planner, subway, subway directions
When did soap and perl become so difficult. Using it as a server is a complete pain. SOAP::Lite was cutting edge 5 years ago. Its just a bit behind with the evolving wsdl standards. So I decided to use XML-RPC, its all I really need and interopability with other languages should be simpler. This is the main reason why I’m using web services to begin with.
Speaking of the XML RPC cpan modules. RPC::XML works well but the documentation is lacking. You have to putz around to get anything to work. add_method() is especially poorly documented. Much guessing and the perl debugger helped me get the syntax correct:) It would be great if there was Apache2 integration … But I shouldn’t complain it actually works and works well.
