[Commotion-dev] Mesh visualization/mapping options

[Paul Gardner-Stephen]

Hello,

Another approach to replicating this visualisation data is to use Rhizome
to replicate the network structure information for visualisation on nodes.
This could feasibly be integrated with these existing tools.

Paul.


On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Dan Staples <
danstaples at opentechinstitute.org> wrote:

>  Also moving this discussion to the dev list. We've been talking about
> re-writing or replacing the clunky OLSR-Viz that we currently use to
> visualize a Commotion mesh on the OpenWRT firmware. Below we mention a
> couple options:
>
> 1) Freifunks super jazzy uber-visualizer:
> http://freifunk-gw01.hamburg.ccc.de/ffhhmap/nodes.html
> 2) AlterMundi's altermap: http://mapa.mesh.altermundi.net/
>
> I personally like the decentralized, replicated nature of Altermap, which
> synchronizes data between hub nodes (using CouchDB), so that each has a
> full picture of the entire network. To build off this idea, we could have
> nodes pushing their link-state data to nearby hubs, and then the nodes
> could periodically pull summarized snapshots of the network map that they
> could present to clients. If the clients want more detailed info, there
> could be a link to a nearby hub node, which would present a visualization
> of the full data set. The hub node could be running a much more in-depth
> visualization, perhaps using something like Freifunk's map.
>
> Here's a quick sketch of how this could be architected:
> http://www.asciiflow.com/#Draw6659252420885764096.
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------  Subject: Re: [OTI-Tech] Freifunks new
> node map  Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:29:39 +0200  From: Dan Staples
> <danstaples at opentechinstitute.org> <danstaples at opentechinstitute.org>  To:
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> On 04/17/2013 12:54 AM, Will Hawkins wrote:
> > I've seen some pretty cool network layout "stuff" that is done with d3
> > and I think that it would be very worthwhile to investigate how to use
> > it for the layout engine for olsr-viz!
> >
> > Will
> >
> > On 04/16/2013 06:28 PM, Georgia Bullen wrote:
> >> using d3 & leaflet!
> >>
> >> nice.
> >>
> >> that's what i've been suggesting to jrb and preston as a way of
> >> combining geographic info and network info.
> >>
> >> -GA
> >>
> >> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Seamus Tuohy <s2e at opentechinstitute.org
> > <s2e at opentechinstitute.org>> <mailto:s2e at opentechinstitute.org> <s2e at opentechinstitute.org>> wrote:
> >>
> >>      It is just so pretty... btw, #battlemesh is the official channel of
> >>      battlemesh and it is starting to become active.
> >>
> >>      http://freifunk-gw01.hamburg.ccc.de/ffhhmap/nodes.html
> >>
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> I'd also like to point to AlterMundi's mapping software: http://mapa.mesh.altermundi.net/
>
> The front-end view isn't super sophisticated, but I like their back-end
> model for collecting the nodes' data. Basically groups of nodes report
> their link-state info (via JSON) to nearby nodes/servers running
> CouchDB. Each of these DBs are federated and synchronize their data to a
> central internet-routable web server that provides the front-end
> display. It's decentralized, and could fit well with our
> BigBoard/LittleBoard idea.
>
> AlterMundi's altermap code is here: https://colectivo.altermundi.net/projects
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