Re: [PLUG] OT, but applicable -> Photo Family Tree

[Louis Kratz <lak24@drexel.edu>]

If you are going to roll your own webapp, it might be cool to usae 
graphiz to generate the trees.  Then you could store all of the 
relational data in some meta format (database, xml, whatever) and 
generate tree pictures on the fly.

Randy Schmidt wrote:

> Sweet! Thanks!
>
> On 8/3/06, Malcolm J Harwood <mjhlists-plug-20060801@liminalflux.net> 
> wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 03 August 2006 13:13, Randy Schmidt wrote:
> >
> > > One of the benefits of rolling my own is I don't want/need a ton of
> > > features, and I don't want the data to be rolled up in a proprietary
> > > format. I also want it web-based because I am a data accessibility
> > > snob. If I did make it public as a hosted app, I would make it so that
> > > people can export the photos and metadata in a form that is easy to
> > > manipulate.
> >
> > There are a couple of existing web based apps that use the standard 
> > GEDCOM
> > format (which is mostly portable, some apps seem to have their own 
> > extensions
> > but the base data is portable).
> >
> > Geneweb (http://cristal.inria.fr/~ddr/GeneWeb/en/index.html) is the 
> > one I've
> > used, and transfering between that and Gramps (offline app) worked 
> > fairly
> > well.
> >
> > > Other people in our family have made family trees, but nobody ever
> > > gets to see them because it is in a windows program on their computer
> > > at home.
> >
> > Most genealogy apps should export GEDCOM, so you can probably get 
> > that info
> > from them to build your own.
> >
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