TimeMap: Google Maps + SIMILE Timeline
Nick Rabinowitz writes on 2008-02-01
:
Hello all -
I thought this might be of interest to this list - I've been working
on a small javascript library to help display items with both
geolocations and time information on a combination of a Google map and
a SIMILE timeline. Several people have done this already, notably Jörn
Clausen with his earthquake map
(http://www.oe-files.de/gmaps/usgseq.html) and of course Exhibit, but
I wanted something a little more
flexible and general purpose. It's currently being used on
Ushahidi.com, a site dedicated to tracking the recent incidents of
violence in Kenya.
Some features:
* load data in JSON or KML
* load multiple datasets with different color themes
* hide map markers for elements not visible on timeline (i.e. show
only roughly concurrent items)
* more or less full access to the underlying map/timeline APIs
* auto center/zoom the map on loaded items
* load info window data using AJAX
This is an early version, and I'd love feedback. You can see examples here:
Artists of the Renaissance (pulling JSON data from freebase.com)
http://www.nickrabinowitz.com/projects/timemap/artists.html
Post-Election Violence in Kenya (pulling KML data from ushahidi.com)
http://www.ushahidi.com/timeline.asp
Download the code here:
http://code.google.com/p/timemap/
I hope you find this useful - let me know what you think!
-Nick
