I had seen that page but somehow didn't think it was working as I'd expected. I've now updated my site and hopefully it's working (I've had 1 report saying it does 2 saying it doesn't but I think that was a misunderstanding). Thanks for your help
John On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:16 AM, John McKerrell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
