SolarSailor
Skilled Investigator
Hi all,
Haven't posted for a while, been busy and what not. Here's the thing, I have been mulling over a project in my spare time, and I have been wondering wether or not I should put a considerable amount of time and effort into a project idea I had. Since I am going to be offering this service for free (although most likely some small adds somewhere in order to pay for the running cost), I don't mind discussing it here.
Basically I thought about creating a web application which allows people to sign up and report UFO sightings, the system would be integrated with Google maps (people could place a pin on the map to give an approximate location). This would time stamp the sighting and filters would allow different functions such as filtering by date etc. This could provide an overview of all reported sightings (to the web app that is) on a certain date world wide.
Do you guys, the paracast forum people, who regularily engage in research think that a tool like this free to the community would be a benefit? Or something that people would overlook? Another use case I had thought of was to pin cattle mutalations also. The main thing about this application is the users, without a stream of data, its basically just a map (although the technicalites behind it will be quite a feat, it will run like a desktop app using backbone.js and java spring MVC).
Haven't posted for a while, been busy and what not. Here's the thing, I have been mulling over a project in my spare time, and I have been wondering wether or not I should put a considerable amount of time and effort into a project idea I had. Since I am going to be offering this service for free (although most likely some small adds somewhere in order to pay for the running cost), I don't mind discussing it here.
Basically I thought about creating a web application which allows people to sign up and report UFO sightings, the system would be integrated with Google maps (people could place a pin on the map to give an approximate location). This would time stamp the sighting and filters would allow different functions such as filtering by date etc. This could provide an overview of all reported sightings (to the web app that is) on a certain date world wide.
Do you guys, the paracast forum people, who regularily engage in research think that a tool like this free to the community would be a benefit? Or something that people would overlook? Another use case I had thought of was to pin cattle mutalations also. The main thing about this application is the users, without a stream of data, its basically just a map (although the technicalites behind it will be quite a feat, it will run like a desktop app using backbone.js and java spring MVC).
