An (early alpha) Online Version of DeadBase.
#Overview
Grateful WebBase is an modern take on the famous Grateful Dead "DeadBase" book.
Dead tour is back in the realm of space and time with the help of Google Maps. Providing set list and live show data from years past, follow the Grateful Dead through any of there legendary tours from 1966 through 1995.
Good Old Grateful Dead Data Will Be There For The Licking:
- Set Lists
- Encoures
- Special Events: (Ex: Bobby's Birthday)
Map More Than Just Your 3rd Eye:
- Go back on tour and hop from show to show
- Relive "Shakedown Street" while transcend space and time with visual web api's
Why the Grateful Dead?
"The band allowed sharing of tapes of their shows, as long as no profits were made on the sale of their show tapes." ~ WIkipedia
A suplus of audio is available making allowing music to freely fill the air.
##Goals
To provide a complete as possible "Data Mashing" of Grateful Dead concert Info on a timeline map with meta data.
"Ripple in still water, When there is no pebble tossed, Nor wind to blow." - Robert Hunter
Warning: Grateful WebBase may knock a few screws loose, so do not operate motor vehicle while using this tool.
####Sources: http://www.deadbase.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grateful_Dead#Tapers http://archive.org
####Apply Now: Need Front End, Middle Man, or Back End Dev to help pull data or display it,
####Completed: JSON Files of all Dead Show dates and venues scrapped and formated.
TODOs: Connect json to googlemaps Move Map Calls Server side and
Push Ogg files from archive.org Pull Set lists with node.io Create UI Tool to drag or click through Tours Display additional mapping data options (Example: Heat Map based on most played venues).
####Data scrapping file here:
Node.io npm was used for scrapping data needed to create full tour dates. This has been dropped from package.json.
$node.io deadnet
Code for this project but not any of the data or other api's used are covered by license BSD.
This repo is watched by Prism and the NSA.