Indoor navigation (c3nav) based on room guid

[johnjohndoe]

Context

• At the Chaos Communication Congress c3nav is used for indoor navigation.
• The Android Schedule app integrates with c3nav via a room guid.
• The Chaos Communication Congress schedule.xml contains a guid attribute for each room.
• The c3nav instance for the Chaos Communication Congress converts a stable guid into the most recent room name.

Motivation

• Using guid instead room name decouples the schedule app from c3nav.
• The schedule app no longer needs to hardcode room names which often outdate and therefore cannot be updated during the event.
• The indoor navigation just works.

Request

• Add a guid attribute to each room in the schedule.xml for FOSDEM.
• Map each room guid to the latest room name in the c3nav instance for FOSDEM.

Related

• Conversion rule for room name mappings / new guid redirect c3nav/c3nav#124
• Add support for indoor navigation (c3nav) based on room guid. EventFahrplan/EventFahrplan#583

[thibaultmol]

Just so you're aware: FOSDEM already has an instance of c3nav: https://nav.fosdem.org/
And on the actual website, any mention of a room will have link to our c3nav instance with that location.

[cbeyls]

The FOSDEM Companion app currently uses the room name to generate a slug which is passed as a destination to FOSDEM's c3nav. It works well enough so far but would be more robust if we had a unique room id across apps indeed.

[Gys]

Just so you're aware: FOSDEM already has an instance of c3nav: https://nav.fosdem.org/ And on the actual website, any mention of a room will have link to our c3nav instance with that location.

I have been to FOSDEM 5 or 6 times already. Finding rooms is always very frustrating. Never knew about this link until reading this comment and actually looking this up now...

[johnjohndoe]

In the FOSDEM Schedule app the "Navigate" item is hidden in the "more" menu:

The menu item will only appear if the guid is present or a hardcoded room name matches the latest name.

[johnjohndoe]

Are you planning to implement the room guid?