Dr. Leff,
Good you found the problematic item. Is that long comment on a single
line or does it contain any line break? The line breaks would have been
the problem. Or if not, perhaps it contains some double quotation marks
that are not escaped?
David
Dr. Leff wrote:
> 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
>
> {
> 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>",
> commentsCount : '28',
> index : '416',
> id : '416',
> secondY : '91.0',
> "question-information" : '<a href=
> http://www.thenationaldialogue.org/ideas/add-national-online-mapping-to-recovery.gov
>
>> Add National Online Mapping to Recovery.gov </a>'
>>
> },
>
> >
>
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