[MLB-WIRELESS] More NodeDB changes

[evilbunny]

Hello syd-wireless,

  Just finished coding another string of updates...

  They include, being able to set notifications, if a person is within
  5km of your location and they either add a node or update a node's
  status to testing/full... I've also setup a wiki on the NodeDB site,
  that any node can link into, rather then the old method of relying on
  each group to have their own, as most didn't have one setup nor
  plans to set one up at any time in the near future...

  In future the notifications may be a setting and you can alter the
  distance, but while I'm making sure it's working how it's supposed
  to and not spamming people by accident, which, depending how bad the
  typo could generate a lot of mail *grin*

  I ditched the idea of random positioning, and instead the DB will
  simply refuse to zoom in any further, the default for the entire
  database will remain at 1km resolution, people are free to change
  this from 10km to 0m, and if the database is allowed to zoom in on
  a nearby node, your node will stop displaying on the map, there are
  numerous reasons for this, not just the obvious theft reason. People
  have expressed concern to myself and others, they have virtually
  been stalked, such as phone calls in the middle of the night and
  being asked about wireless stuff from complete strangers, to people
  going to their house trying to connect to them. For those of you that
  think putting in slightly incorrect values will solve it, think
  again, people drive around the immediate area looking for/sniffing
  for your antenna that looks like a WLAN setup, and that was under
  the old mapblast with the very inaccurate mapping information. While
  no system is perfect, I've made all attempts I can to reduce this
  from happening, if you set your zoom preference to 10km virtually
  nothing is identifiable, other then suburb. So get everyone you know
  involved and then half where ever your from involved and they won't
  bother you.

  I've almost finished the Australia wide display of nodes, this will
  be a clickable image map as soon as possible, anyone able to tell me
  if there is a maximum number of area parts an image map can have?

  Currently there is potentially 293 nodes (out of ~1330) that could
  be culled in a about 3 weeks time, if you go into the Node DB and
  your listed as seen for more then 90 days then your most likely on
  the attempting to be contacted list or you may have already been
  sent an email about this. There is also a large number of people in
  the NodeDB with incorrect or invalid email addresses, all new email
  accounts are tested and need to be confirmed within 48 hours from
  now on, otherwise the system could be set to remove your node,
  myself and others that admin different regions are tired of all the
  bounced messages and felt this is potentially the only way to stop
  this from happening...

  There is currently about 45 regions across all states and
  territories in the country, I am currently looking for expressions 
  of interest in managing the other regions, so far Sydney, Adelaide
  and Mudgee are covered, with an offer to the existing admin of
  Melbourne Wireless, if they wish to take me up on it to manage the
  Melbourne section. There will be backup scripts, so that these
  people can keep additional backups apart from what currently
  happens.

  If I've forgotten anything about updates to the NodeDB site, they
  should appear on the Updates section that I'll be finishing off
  soonish... http://www.nodedb.com/updates/

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Best regards,
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