On 6/17/2013 4:57 PM, Jörn Clausen wrote:
Hi David!
I think David Huynh asked me the same question in 2007 or 2008 :)
One reason is, that (at least in 2007), I wanted to program the
interaction between the RSS feeds, the map and the timeline on my own.
Coding something like Timeline was and still is way beyond my
abilities, but putting the pieces together I could do - in 2007, now I
needed some help... Another reason is, that the layout of Exhibit
looks fixed, with given boxes of information and margins. This is
probably all changeable via CSS, but I think this was not well
documented back then - is it now? I wanted to have just the two
regions of timeline and map, nothing else, border to border, in a
liquid layout.
unfortunately exhibit still doesn't have good documentation of its css,
but this kind of thing is certainly doable by inspecting css via firebug
and then overriding it.
But the main reason is, that earthquake data contains not enough
dimensions to be useful for Exhibit. If there was an easy way to
categorize them by location (e.g. continent, tectonic plate, fault
system), or to have some measure for the severity (i.e. the impact on
people, not the raw magnitude), this data would make great facets. But
without such data, Exhibit is just overkill.
That's an interesting perspective. There's no *requirement* to use
facets in exhibit. I've actually seen quite a few exhibits with no
facets at all. I look at it opposite: exhibit should be *easier* to use
than timeline---ideally, exhibit should be best even for just making a
single timeline, since it requires less programming and js.
Last but not least: Originally, I didn't want to update the mashup
myself. But with the problems of Timeline v1 in May and the likely
death of Google Maps API 2, something had to be done. I hadn't
anticipated the differences between the APIs, both Google Maps and
Timeline. I considered switching to timemap.js (after all, Nick got
the idea from my mashup, that would have been a nice "full circle" :),
but ultimately decided against it.
I have used Exhibit for other applications, but I think the Live
Earthquake Mashup is just fine the way it is :)
Joern
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 10:20 PM, David Karger <[email protected]> wrote:
Jorg, this looks quite nice. I did want to ask: given the similarity of
this mashup to the "US presidents" exhibit
(http://trunk.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/examples/presidents/presidents.html
) was there a reason you chose to manually connect timeline to a google map
instead of letting exhibit do it for you?
thanks
David
On 6/17/2013 4:19 PM, Jörn Clausen wrote:
Hello Mike!
Once more a big "Thank You"!!!
That worked like a charm. With all the pieces in the right place, it
gives me great pleasure to announce the Live Earthquake Mashup TNG,
based on Google Maps V3 and Timeline V2:
http://www.oe-files.de/gmaps/eqmashup.html
That'll do for some more years... :)
On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Nosal, Michael R. <[email protected]>
wrote:
You can add the "classname" attribute to your event data.
The overview band will add the class "small-yourclassname" to the event
tick in the overview band.
e.g.
<event start="Fri Nov 22 1963 12:30:00 GMT-0600"
title="Kennedy shot"
icon="dark-red-circle.png"
id="Kennedy shot"
classname="important">
President Kennedy shot in Dallas.
</event>
Add in your CSS:
.small-important {
background-color:red;
}
--Mike
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Subject: [Simile-Widgets] coloring events in Timeline overview bands
Hi!
Maybe that question got lost in the other thread...
How can I colorize (non-duration) events in an overview band?
The only thing missing in my updated Live Earthquake Mashup at
http://www.oe-files.de/gmaps/eqmashup-ng.html
compared to the old one using version 1 of Timeline at
http://www.oe-files.de/gmaps/eqmashup.html
are the color coded events in the lower overview band. To show that
the color information is passed to the timeline, at the moment the
text in the upper band is colorized, but that impedes readability. I'd
really like to recreate the original look of the timeline.
--
Joern Clausen
http://thebloeg.blogspot.com/
http://www.oe-files.de/photography/
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