05-02-2021, 10:28 PM
(05-02-2021, 03:55 PM)nms Wrote: From the user side (since I know nothing about setting up a wiki) here are couple of thoughts:
1. A search function with the ability to input a street address (in the case of a development) would be the most useful. Including a map in the search function (similar to Google's "What's Here?" search option) would be useful if the street address is unknown (or perhaps is renumbered during development in cases where three or four street addresses become one).
2.Similarly if a map were an option, some sort of slider that allowed you to isolated time periods (ie all development post 2010) or to overlay other data (ie transit route changes over time).
3. To tie back to WRC, linking a particular article/subject back to the forum would allow a user to read background material on the various topics.
All this being said, I'm sure that the Region of Waterloo datasets might provide some data to fill in missing gaps.
Those are nice functions but definitely beyond what a wiki can do (think of a wiki mostly as a collection of Word documents on a web site, with links between them -- it's really not very dynamic). Maybe there is some open-source software out there to do this -- or else someone would need to write some code for this.