Data Aggregation
Along with schema it would be good if we define also a way/system for data aggregation so that we could also use common services (like one huge map of all nodes from all networks with (near) real-time status data).
Web Service
Freifunk Node Database can be accessed as a RESTful webservice to either read or even manipulate its content. Example: http://db.hannover.freifunk.net/nodes.xml
<nodes type="array"> <node> <city>Hannover</city> <created-at type="datetime">2007-05-27T23:08:43+02:00</created-at> <description>Technology: wrt</description> <id type="integer">17</id> <ip type="integer">167903489</ip> <lat type="decimal">52.38613</lat> <lng type="decimal">9.721763</lng> <name>10-2-1-1</name> <position nil="true"/> <street>Am kleinen Felde</street> <subnet-id type="integer">15</subnet-id> <updated-at type="datetime">2009-12-27T00:55:56+01:00</updated-at> <user-id type="integer">11</user-id> <zip>30167</zip> </node> ...