Joern Clausen wrote: > Hi! > > I gave my Timeline/Google Maps Earthquake Mashup at > > http://www.oe-files.de/gmaps/usgseq.html > > another overhaul. Depending on the age of an earthquake, icons with > different transparency are used, giving the impression of events "fading > away". Combined with the new Terrain Map of Google Maps, I am quite > pleased with the result :)) > I love that transparency effect!
You can also use a red-blue gradient and a few other shapes beside a star to encode even more information visually. Perhaps you can add a slider for controlling how recent the events are (e.g., showing only events within a day of the centered date on the timeline). > And I finally got around to make the application work in Internet > Explorer, barely though. Of course, PNGs with alpha channel are not > supported (at least up to IE6), and there are a few other problems, but > it's probably better than nothing. > > Happy Holidays, > Joern > > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
