I'm starting to really learn my way around geoserver. I've published an interactive webmap on my local server. Need to figure out how to serve it the world. Once I do that, I'd be really happy to make one for wny legend. I'm thinking it will just have some basic layers and tools for people to play around with, to start. Maybe parcels, anything that could actually be useful to the user. We'll see what I can find when I get to it. I'm open to data suggestions. I need .shp files.
I'd be happy to help test it out. Right now I think all you need to do is find out your ip, type that in the address bar with the port # and you're golden.
Not sure about how well that would work as a long term solution to the interactive mapping though, your computer would have to be on all the time for people to access it. If you are high on geoserver, I can look into whether or not I can get it installed on the hosting service I have, then give you access to the geoserver files/directories.
But, baby steps right :) Let me know when you are up for testing and I'll give it a shot.
Since someone mentioned farmer's markets as an example of content to put on the website, here's something that I stumbled across
http://codeforamerica.org/2011/08/08/farmers-market-api/
It looks like the page is made with some sort of library that may be useful for interactive maps.
pretty cool what they did with the market data. since they just basically plotted the markets, maybe we could do some sort of spatial analysis, density, or vs. # of people in neighborhood, and compare it to other cities.
Our interactive mapping guru has installed geoserver and made a test map available!
http://wnylegend.com/content/interactive-map