Hello all - I thought this might be of interest to this list - I've been working on a small javascript library to help display items with both geolocations and time information on a combination of a Google map and a SIMILE timeline. Several people have done this already, notably Jörn Clausen with his earthquake map (http://www.oe-files.de/gmaps/usgseq.html) and of course Exhibit, but I wanted something a little more flexible and general purpose. It's currently being used on Ushahidi.com, a site dedicated to tracking the recent incidents of violence in Kenya.
Some features: * load data in JSON or KML * load multiple datasets with different color themes * hide map markers for elements not visible on timeline (i.e. show only roughly concurrent items) * more or less full access to the underlying map/timeline APIs * auto center/zoom the map on loaded items * load info window data using AJAX This is an early version, and I'd love feedback. You can see examples here: Artists of the Renaissance (pulling JSON data from freebase.com) http://www.nickrabinowitz.com/projects/timemap/artists.html Post-Election Violence in Kenya (pulling KML data from ushahidi.com) http://www.ushahidi.com/timeline.asp Download the code here: http://code.google.com/p/timemap/ I hope you find this useful - let me know what you think! -Nick _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
