Hi David, Yes, I think it'd be great to have a media-wiki on wiki.simile-widgets.org or some such.
Regards, Larry ________________________________ From: David Huynh <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 2:02:27 PM Subject: Re: points, lines, and polygons in Exhibit John Callahan wrote: > David, > > Yes, this is something I would definitely like. Having the ability > to display points, lines, and polygons I think is a wonderful feature > I would use quite often. And yes, I would be willing to come up with > examples, test code, write some wiki pages, etc... My background is > in GIS so I am actually more familar with geospatial data and display > than javascript coding... but I'm learning! John, Examples, test code, wiki pages--that'd be great! By the way, Stefano and I are thinking of setting up a media wiki on simile-widgets.org because we both don't like the Google Code wiki. It'd also be easier to move old wiki materials from simile.mit.edu/wiki/ over. And anyone can sign up for an account on that new wiki without having to be added as a code contributor on the Google Code project. Any opinion on that? > Maybe we could also add the ability to filter by geography (lat and > long bounding boxes) such as maybe having a area of interest that by > default covers the entire area. You could adjust the size of the box > to filter. (Just thinking that sounds very similar to having a date > range filter in Timeline.) That feature is one that some of us have been wanting forever... It's a bit tricky how to implement, though. What you probably want is to dim out map markers outside the selected rectangle, but not to hide them completely. There's also a conflict with how Exhibit has been conceptually designed so far: there are facets (filters: list facet, range facet, text search facet, etc.) and there are views (tile, thumbnail, timeline, map, scatterplot, etc.). Facets do the filtering while views do the presenting. The user interface might get conceptually confusing if views also filter. > Adding the ability to display map markers as image icons would be nice > as well (although I think I've seen some custom apps that have > already done this.) I'll help wherever I can here with these. Is this different from the presidents example in which their photos are rendered in their map markers? David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
