Super Happy Dev House 7 report:
I got started on gasuse and rearranged some things. Donovan helped me with a nested sequence in nevow. Nevow is hard because of all the things you can't see, but isn't omitting things you don't need to see the point of programming languages?
Then I got distracted with Jesse's request for some demo tiles to ship with his scrolling map widget in dojo. I had recently made some renderings of the TIGER streetmap data, so I hacked that code some more to output tiles at multiple zooms. Then, to make our demo tiles somehow better than the tiles you get with gmaps, I added rendering of address numbers on the streets. My renderings still had various embarrassing artifacts, so I spent the rest of the night cleaning some of them up. I'm especially pleased with the results of the street name repeater code, which tries to write a street name label every 200 pixels. Text alignment still needs work; and we didn't get to try any street-smoothing algorithms.
Meanwhile, David Weekly was jacking into ODB-II ports on people's cars to see what they would output, and I didn't even notice! I'd love to get that going on my Accord. Logs with accurate speed and timestamps would make great plots on my street maps.
