Hi Just thought you might be interested to see an implementation of the Simile Timeline that I've recently done on my site http://mapme.at/
The site allows you to store a location history through various methods, including integrations with Yahoo! Fire Eagle and Google Latitude. Previously we had a very simple drop-down allowing you to show history for any of the last 30 days for a user. With Simile Timeline we've been able to much improve this. The bottom band shows a summary of your history for the last 30 days, highlighting the days that you've had activity. The top band shows individual journeys and periods of inactivity. As you drag the timeline around more data is loaded. Here's a few examples, the first shows my location which I've restricted the accuracy of, the following two show timelines for users that show full accuracy: http://mapme.at/where/john http://mapme.at/where/thebox http://mapme.at/where/royaliris#/200905202037/6 (the time interval to show in the top band is detected automatically depending on how active the user is, it probably still needs some tweaking) It's been an interesting widget to work with but I'm really happy with the result. I think there's still more that I can do with it but I'd be interested to hear your feedback and if you think there's things I could do better. One thing that I'm not sure about is timezones (and I think other people have had issues with that too). I'm creating JS date objects that appear to be correct, the source string is, for example, "2009/06/03 20:11:15 +0000". This creates a JS date object that returns, on my computer (in the UK), "Wed Jun 03 2009 21:11:15 GMT+0100 (BST)". The timeline is showing the dates as GMT though. I did find one web page that suggested Simile Timeline would use the browser's timezone by default. I also noticed the timeZone option for band, I tried ((new Date()).getTimezoneOffset()/60) but that seemed to shift another hour in the wrong direction. Should I simply negate that or is there something else I should be doing? Anyway, great widget, thanks to all involved in putting it together. Hope you find my integration interesting. John --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
