m0smithslash's Journal: Topoged and phpGedView

Along with the rest of the world, I always seem to have side projects going. One of these is called topoged and it lives at http://www.topoged.com/ with a blog at http://topoged.sf.net/.

What is topoged?

I like doing genealogy,http://m0smith.freeshell.org/JosephAnthonyThomas/ and have over 10,000 names between my wife's family and my family. The problem is that genealogy programs only let you see a few people at a time and its hard to truly understand the data.

On the other hand, a topographical map presents a lot of data in a very concise way. There are lines and colors and icons all presented in a clear, easy to understand format.

Topoged is then to generate a 3D image of the genealogical data so that it can be understood better. Right now I don't know what they looks like but I have a few vague notions.

What about phpGedView?

This is an open source project, http://phpgedview.sf.net/ that manages and displays genealogical data online. I have integrated it into the topoged site and will build the 3d images based on what phpGedView provides.