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Navigating around TUM with excellence – A website and API to search for rooms, buildings and other places
https://nav.tum.de
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Should we integrate some select data from the LMU roomfinder? #35

Open CommanderStorm opened 2 years ago

CommanderStorm commented 2 years ago

Should we integrate some select data from the LMU roomfinder? The reason for this PR is, that The TUM sometimes (for example for bioinformatics) cooperates with the LMU.

The "LMU-Raumfinder" seems pretty scrapable, from this point this would not be an issue. Should we integrate the most important 2-5 Buildings, or should we not bother with this, as their roomfinder seems to be as data-rich as tumonline?

octycs commented 2 years ago

As I found out, the LMU Roomfinder is actually open source, and the repository already includes the data: https://github.com/lmu/raumfinder/tree/master/json (There is no direct license file, but the package.json says ISC).

However it seems that room coordinates are only x/y pixel coordinates. I think the easiest is to integrate the buildings data, and then link on their pages to the LMU Raumfinder subpage to search for a specific room.