Date   : Sun, 26 Apr 2009 10:46:43 +0100
From   : joel@... (Joel Rowbottom)
Subject: Domesday

Hi --

--On Sunday, April 26, 2009 10:39:51 +0100 Darren Grant 
<darren.grant@...> wrote:

> Sadly the reason that domesday1986.com has disappeared is that Adrian
> Pearce the person responsible for it has recently died.

That is a very sad loss. I'm sorry to hear that.

> So building a box to
> replace the LV-ROM drive would mean you may as well use an emulator to
> emulate the BBC as well and run the whole thing on PC hardware, I can't
> see the advantage of running it on a BBC.

My approach is getting the most 'vulnerable' part of it running - that is, 
the contributions on the Community Disc. I'm in the process of decoding the 
indexing data and the content into an SQL database, linked to the frame 
numbers. Once I've got that I have tested an approach to automate capture 
of every single frame into JPEG, which means I can link it all together.

Things like map data can be provided using the Google Maps API or 
OpenStreetMap (the former is more complete, the latter I have friends and 
colleagues who develop so I will have more assistance). I'm not bothered 
about things like census data.

Once I've done that I'll take it from there what I do with it!


j