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Subject: 
LDraw Official Model Repository (OMR)
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Mon, 18 Dec 2006 21:44:11 GMT
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I'm going to start development on the LDraw.org OMR.   Currently I'm in the brainstorming and idea phase of the project.  Here's my ideas:

- Automated submission via forms
- Submissions moderated prior to inclusion in the database
- Automatic previw image generation
- Searchable via theme, set title, set number, etc..
- Cross links to Peeron inventories

Questions:
- How to handle unofficial parts

Your ideas, requests, suggestions?

-Orion



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: LDraw Official Model Repository (OMR)
 
(...) Should it allow for multiple versions of the same set? Seems mean if 2 people both happen to have done the same set not to be able to credit them both. And there's the problem of who decides which one is "best" anyway. Maybe it could be like (...) (18 years ago, 18-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: LDraw Official Model Repository (OMR)
 
(...) I'm a visitor/user not a programer (in any sense of the word). My two cents: Great Idea. To be able to download a model that I don't have (and thus can't CAD myself) is awesome. Moderating them is good for the users to protect them from models (...) (18 years ago, 19-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)
  Re: LDraw Official Model Repository (OMR)
 
(...) I don't wish to dissuade you from going ahead with this, but I'm just wondering if there's really that much demand for such a thing. I recall seeing something similar a few years ago. It was pretty much dormant, and looked like it had been for (...) (18 years ago, 19-Dec-06, to lugnet.cad)

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