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
>
>   

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