Sure.  The longer one is at www.plazacr.com with a still longer one
hidden in some design documents on the site. Here is the short version.
By "short" them main thing I am leaving out is the "Why? and How?"
of the various decisions (such as text-based and locator map).

The site will (primarily) be a text-based business listing system. Any
business in Costa Rica (500,000 is the current number) can get a free
listing. People can then search by a set of criteria including proximity
to a specific GPS location (such as their home, work or a common
landmark).

I just realized the use of primarily has two meanings. First, the major
reason for the site is the business locator function. Second, primarily
text--at the individual entry level a business might elect to have
graphics. Also, locator maps will, of course, be graphical.

Functionality will include:
  * User logins and profiles which will contain their default language
    and locations for their house, work, ...
  * Business (and content provider) logins so they can enter and update
    business entries.

Backend will be PostgreSQL. The mapping software will probably be GMT
but that is still up for grabs.

At this point I would like to get the basics working so the
non-technical people on the project will see exactly what is happening
and, probably, come up with what is missing. Thus, I am not concerned
with presentation but would like to put the site together in such a
manner that presentation issues could be addressed later without major
code rewrites.

On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 08:09:26AM -0500, Patrick K. O'Brien wrote:
> Can you give a short description of what you are trying to accomplish with
> Quixote?

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