That's pretty cool, Nick!
It would be interesting to add facets right on top of the map, like in
this site:
http://hotpads.com/map/cities/CA/San_Francisco.htm
By the way, showing on the map only markers visible on the timeline
hides away things co-located in space but not co-located in time. Maybe
there should be a setting to say which of the timeline and the map is
dominant.
David
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
>
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