I'm sure many other people have done this before, and, in any case, this demo is slightly faked:
http://www.scaffie.co.uk/scenehere/worldenoughandtime/ I'm driving both Google Maps and Timeline off the same data feed, namely http://www.stewartry-wheelers.org/wheelers/primitive?category=1 (although at present I'm using a static copy of that data, rather than generating it in real time). Google Maps is consuming the 'primitive' XSL through a custom javascript loader; it's possible to get Google Maps to consume the same data directly: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=http://www.stewartry-wheelers.org/wheelers/rss but if it I use the RSS I don't currently have the date in a convenient format for Timeline.DateTime.parseGregorianDateTime... So, what I've achieved: I can format the same data for both Timeline and Google Maps. I can scroll the timeline to focus on an event selected from the map. What I haven't yet achieved, and would be grateful either for someone to tell me how to do, or else for someone else to cop-operate with me in working out how to do, is scroll the map (easy) to focus on an event selected in the timeline (much less easy). I'd also like to have the info window on the map close when the info window on the timeline is opened, and vice versa. What I'm aiming for is to be able to produce a generalised API which can be pointed at any single RSS feed with both GeoRSS information, which will then display that feed onto linked geographic and temporal displays. Anyone want to play? Simon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ ;; If Python is executable pseudocode, ;; then Perl is executable line noise -- seen on Slashdot. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
