I like the way the timeline is used as a facet for deciding what is shown on the map. On the other hand, it would be nice to color (and filter) map points on attributes of the data, as exhibit does, rather than be limited to coloring based on source file. Perhaps it is worth thinking about how to use exhibit as a back-end (to make it easy to support such filtering) for more flexible/general purpose front-ends.
Nick Rabinowitz wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
