Hi David! On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 8:34 PM, David Karger <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
First of all: I don't want to do the reimplementing, I simply don't have the time :) When I started the mashup, I think David Huynh already suggested using Exhibit, and I probably did a quick test myself back then. Actually, I think Exhibit has too many features for what I want to do. And the most tweaking I had to do was diverting a click in the timeline to open a bubble on the map. The fact that timeline and map have their on pop-ups is my main problem with Exhibit. Had I been able to reproduce this behaviour with Timeline 2.x, I probably would have continued the mashup myself. > 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. I think that problem is solvable. But even then, the data does not have enough facets to make for a nice Exhibit. If the data was tagged with geographical regions, types of earthquakes, level of destruction on the ground, and so on, that would call for useful filters. Filtering on the data that is there I don't consider that useful. Your filter for the magnitude is a nice example of what Exhibit can achieve technically, but I don't think anybody is interested in viewing all earthquakes of magnitudes 3 to 5 and filter out all bigger events. At least not for the current data feeds covering only the last two weeks. For analyzing hundreds of thousands of events over several decades, that might be a different story. When Exhibit 3.0 is ready, that could be a nice application ) -- Joern Clausen http://thebloeg.blogspot.com/ http://www.oe-files.de/oefiles/ -- 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.
