Thank you, Dr. Huynh, for inspecting our Simile file and your
thoughtful
suggestions. Unfortunately, they did not resolve the problem.
Our graduate student, Mr. Yeluri found the problem. One of the JSON
items created the problem.
That is, if we remove the object below from our JSON file, our Simile
Exhibit
now displays correctly in Mozilla and Internet Explorer.
You will observe that there is a very long field (comments) within
it. We
suspect that Mozilla has a problem with a buffer size.
Dr. Laurence Leff Western Illinois University, Macomb IL 61455 ||
(309) 298-1315
Stipes 447 Assoc. Prof. of Computer Sci. Pager: 309-367-0787 FAX:
309-298-2302
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idealabel : 'Add National Online Mapping to Recovery.gov ',
docCreatedDate : 'Apr 28, 2009',
cDate : '2',
rating : '4',
votesCount : '63',
tags : ["data collection","data analysis and visualization","website
design","gis mapping of stimulus projects","gis","data
visualization","semantics-then-syntax-then-
technology","terminology","national terminology","vendor"],
label : 'PolicyMap',
authorURL : '<a href= http://www.thenationaldialogue.org/author/PolicyMap
> PolicyMap </a>',
comments : '<a href =http://www.thenationaldialogue.org/ideas/add-
national-online-mapping-to-recovery.gov#answer-button> PolicyMap
comments on this idea</a>',
commentsList : "<ul><li>I agree that online mapping tied into other
data sources is part of the essential suite of visualization methods
required. Besides GIS mapping, I'd like to see relationship mapping
(of contractors/agencies), systems mapping (all the environmental
projects, say, and how they link into larger policy goals).</li><li>I
think mapping is a good visual technique to show the data and this
idea has clearly been well thought out.</li><li>What I'd like to see
from the mapping perspective is some level of assurance that specific
regions haven't been allotted more then their 'fair share' of
funding.</li><li>I can imagine many small towns getting squeezed out
of funding consideration because they don't have fancy lawyers or deep
political connections.</li><li>However, despite the growing
urbanization such regional economic centers are key for America's
continued success and are as deserving, proportionately, of stimulus.</
li><li>Adding national mapping capabilities like those available on
PolicyMap to recovery.gov would introduce an unprecedented level of
transparency to the pattern of recovery spending. while at the same
time offering the public an easy way to connect the dots between
stimulus dollars and concrete outcomes.</li><li>The central aspect of
mapping is adding geocodes to all data items, and making data
searchable and extractable by those geocodes (e.g, through use of an
Open Geospatial Consortium WMS and WFT queries). That way, data can be
mapped in lots of ways, by lots of people, for lots of purposes - not
just in pre-canned ways.</li><li>Maps do provide increased
transparency to data, graphically showing citizens data of interest in
their area, and providing a natural way to zoom into more detail. All
the ideas you've proposed are important, though I would also add</
li><li>, as a way for citizens to participate in the recovery
process.</li><li>Although your site displays an impressive amount of
effort, I'd caution that the average citizen wants easy-to-use and
easy-to-understand maps of programs and spending, and does not
necessarily need to get lost in details or related economic data. Such
layers are interesting for an economist, but for Recovery.gov, maps
showing programs and spending, with links to explanations elsewhere on
Recovery.gov would be best.</li><li>In addition to simple geographic
maps, I echo the comment about simple hierarchical maps as being
another good way to show relationships between programs, between
areas, and between spending.</li><li>What do you guys think of this?</
li><li>proposed Stimulus spending (Via Stimuluswatch.org), and
Unemployment data (Via Bureau of Labor Statistics). this took me about
10 minutes to make.</li><li>hopefully this embed works in the comments
section:</li><li><script type= text/javascript charset= utf-8 src=
http://maker.demo.geocommons.com/javascripts/embed.js ></script></
li><li>Ok, i guess the embed didn't work, here is the link:
http://maker.geocommons.com/maps/2788</li><li>This tool provides the
exactly the type of transparency that theadministration is advocating.
In my mind, no site on the web contains the same amountof data and
features without the need to purchase/download software oreven install
a plug-in.</li><li>If it were used for recovery.gov, it might make
sense to have oneversion that's streamlined for easy use by the public
and a secondthat's more geared for researchers or other power users. I
think thesetwo sets of users have different needs for information.</
li><li>Agreed. We've loaded in over 4,000 variables from public
sources (Census, IRS, FBI, Postal Service, BLS, HUD, etc.) as well
asvariables that users send us - so the underlying database/platform
isextensive. One of our goals was to load as much public data as we
couldget our hands on into one fast, national, web application. And,
we reallywanted users to able to overlay address level points on top
of thematicneighborhood data. So, the capacity to do this kind of
mapping onrecovery.gov is there. PolicyMap's users are public policy
makers, stateand local governments, foundations, financial
institutions and the like.An application designed for the public would
need a different user interface.</li><li>I think the discussion around
this great idea is evidence of the need for an approach akin to the
semantic lens idea submitted</li><li>What we're seeing here is that
nearly everyone agrees that map views of stimulus data are essential,
but everyone has their own ideas of precisely what information they'd
like to include in such a map. Sure recovery.gov can (& should)
provide some common map views, but it would serve people even better
if it provided a way that people could easily create their own map
views (and other views), fill them with whatever recovery data they
want, and then share them with the world.</li</ul>",
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http://www.thenationaldialogue.org/ideas/add-national-online-mapping-to-recovery.gov
> Add National Online Mapping to Recovery.gov </a>'
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