If you're thinking of reimplementing, you might want to consider basing
on exhibit instead of timeline. that prepackages a lot of the
functionality you had to implement (coordinating multiple views) plus
some other nice packaged stuff like faceted browsing. The biggest
obstacle is that your data feeds aren't really well structured---they
conflate various types of information under the same tag, or even as
concatenated text inside one field. But I quickly through together an
example, where I fiddled a little with the data, at
http://people.csail.mit.edu/karger/Exhibit/Quakes/quakes.html
On 5/17/2011 4:46 PM, Jörn Clausen wrote:
Hello!
The Live Earthquake Mashup at
http://www.oe-files.de/gmaps/eqmashup.html
is, I think, one of the oldest applications (in the wild and still
alive, at least) which uses Simile Timeline. It has been constantly
running since March 2007. And it's starting to get old and needs
someone to take care of it.
I know what you are thinking: Earthquake Mashup? BORING!! Probably.
After all, this is the classic "hello world" example in "How to write
Mashups in 20 Minutes". But over time, this mashup has achieved a nice
constant level of usage, that usually skyrockets in the wake of big
events (http://thebloeg.blogspot.com/2011/03/ooooh-that-ripped.html).
So I guess it actually covers some kind of demand. And I think
compared to its contenders, thanks to the Timeline widget, it looks
pretty cool...
But to provide this service for some more years, the mashup needs an
overhaul. Most urgent is probably a switch to current APIs, it still
uses Timeline 1.x and Google Maps API 2.x. And compatibility with
modern browsers (especially those in mobile devices) needs to be
checked and improved. And I have a few other ideas. But unfortunately
not the time, anymore...
I have set up a Google Project at
http://code.google.com/p/eqmashup/
and collected a few ideas in the Wiki. If you like to contribute to or
take over this project, please let me know, so we can discuss the
details.
Joern
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