Hi David Thanks for the links, I'll take a look. You should be able to experience the timeline by browsing one of the links I gave in my original email. You should be able to do that without logging in (if it does ask you to log in, please let me know!) Unfortunately, yes, to add your own data you need to log in.
John On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 5:21 AM, David Huynh <[email protected]> wrote: > > John McKerrell wrote: > > 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, > > That looks interesting! It'd be nice to get to experience its value-add > without having to sign up / sign in first. > > Regarding the time zone issue, there is a little test here > > > http://trunk.simile-widgets.org/timeline/examples/test_timezones/test_timezones.html > that might shed some lights on how Timeline parses date/time ISO8601 > strings. There are some relevant discussions here > > > http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets/search?group=simile-widgets&q=test_timezones > > Hope that helps! > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
