Hi Jorn, I haven't looked in-depth at your Timeline, but it might be worth considering converting it to dipity. If you haven't seen it yet, take a look at some of the examples at: http://www.dipity.com/
This "Timeline SaaS" does much of the heavy lifting for you and seems, at first glance, to provide most/all of the features that you require. If you think it's a possibility, I might even be able to do a first-pass at the conversion. Just let me know what you think. -Mark On May 25, 1:41 pm, Jörn Clausen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 Clausenhttp://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.
