Our project with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to develop a mapping application for use in developing countries was highlighted by the science journal Nature.
The site will allow users to create spatial data and records for development projects. The site will have a strong community component that will allow users to collaborate and refine the data. The site will be built using Acquia Drupal and the Google Maps API 3. It is expected to launch in late spring 2010.
OHO, a certified Acquia Drupal partner, had a significant presence at DrupalCon DC last week. OHO developers, designers, and project managers headed down from Boston to attend dozens of sessions, take pages & pages of notes, and grow a hat size or two. This week, the OHO blog will cover some of our favorite parts of the conference.
One of the first sessions we attended talked about Drupal’s implementation of Apache SOLR. SOLR is an enterprise-oriented search server, and it offers one of the best user experiences around. It can handle misspellings and manage different word tenses. It’s intelligent enough to weight the search results by the order that you’d like to see them. In addition, SOLR can intrinsically handle Faceted Searches, one of the main features our customers have asked for in their sites. The full presentation can be found here.
Apache SOLR will play a huge part in Acquia Drupal. Be sure to keep your eyes peeled- OHO plans to release some Acquia Drupal sites in the near future!
Acquia is the commercial open source software company providing products, services, and technical support for the open source Drupal social publishing system. OHO has used the Drupal system for numerous clients both as a social publishing system and a content management system. Acquia has announced their plans for the coming year and they can be found at: http://acquia.com/community/projects/acquia-2009-roadmap
