Email 01/02/08

Hey Guys,

Really sorry about the delay, been properly busy the past couple of days! All the same I've put down the ground work (A selection of classes for the map data and a class to encapsulate the Map)

I've also created a class called FileProcessor which has one public static method called processFile(String)

I was thinking that implementing each processor in a different class is gonna start making things very difficult so what I've done is produced a method in the FileProcessor class for each of the files and kindly pass you an InputStream object referring to the particular files you were all assigned. (I've amalgamated buildings_details.csv and buildings.txt into the same class (as they are encapsulated this way so a little bit of post processing with be required here to get it all together and return the Vector.

Take some time to figure out were your input is required and what classes are there and knock out the code =)

As for SVN stuff we've got a hosting solution from Google code for free for upto 100Mb, I use Eclipse for coding and have configured that fine. I'll add you all as projects owners (Stu is one already) you can simply follow the instructions on the website for details on how to configure your IDE

(The common problem that I had was connecting behind proxy but Stu solved this solution is (if your a *nix junkie to add the following lines to your config file)

~/.subversion/config/servers


[groups]
googlecode = *.googlecode.com

[googlecode]
http-proxy-host = wwwcache.lancs.ac.uk
http-proxy-port = 8080
http-timeout = 60
ssl-trust-default-ca = yes

and ensure that your IDE is also configured to work from behind the proxy as well!

Anyone got any votes for a meeting next Monday? in the time we would of normally had a meeting with Jon? OR a meeting on Wednesday at 11?

Dan