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I’m going to corral the GIS related discussions back into this forum. When I write about GIS at Think New Orleans, I’ll link to this forum as the pace to discuss GIS.
This way, our discussion can attract more interest and more participation. It also frees me from the task of coordinating all the email.
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Ouch, now it crashed GoogleEarth.
There are definitely some fancy things going on in that Google Earth file. I think one time upload of the Taylor map should do the trick, refreshing every 30 seconds is probably a little much for an 80 year old map :). In fact, any refresh for this data is probably overkill. If we get to the point that this people are uploading data that quickly, that’s a good problem to have.
Hi ClarkT - thanks for the feedback.
You’re right that the 30-second update for any of the layers in the KML is not always necessary. This is a default from any Mapufacture map since the underlying data can be dynamic. For example, new Flickr photos or blog posts.
The historic Taylor map actually isn’t in the KML and so won’t show up in Google Earth or other KML clients. This is something that could be added at some point.
Finally, for the time slider - this is part of the Google Earth API and isn’t controllable by the KML file.
I’m not sure why Google Earth would have crashed. This shouldn’t be possible with a KML file - I’ve done files with tens of thousands of markers, and you can turn on all the GeoWeb layers to get some interesting overwhelming amount of information.
Thanks Andrew,
Is there a link directly to the Turner map .gif or .jpg? Easy to overlay that in Google Earth.
As for the Google Earth time slider, there must be a way to have all the pushpins for the data show up at once. As it is I have to select from the Sidebar as the data I’m intrested may or may not show up on the map depending on the position of the time slider.
I rewrote the Google Earth file without the refresh tags, and that seems to have fixed the crash. The photo links however are not working. For instance: this link is in the Lafron Elementary write up : http://www.flickr.com/photos/xxno/2625033215
But clicking on it brings me to http://mapufacture.com/feeds
This information is not included in the .kml file, it seems to be loaded from a mapufacture served .kml file.
Great suggestings ClarkT - I will see about implementing these changes and fixes.
Regarding the time slider - you can also just drag out the time slider itself to view the entire time range. I believe there has been requests to Google to modify the behavior of Google Earth when loading KML files with long date ranges.
Things have been quiet here lately - but not because things haven’t been moving forward. I’ve just been bad at posting them here.
I’ve been focused most recently on the news about Mapufacture joining with FortiusOne.
http://highearthorbit.com/mapufacture-joins-with-fortiusone/
It’s really exciting and provides a larger base to build the mapping technology we’ve been talking about in this forum and at conferences. In fact the new GeoCommons application coming out soon includes a number of features that Francine has specifically been looking for that have been missing from Mapufacture.
FortiusOne shares the same philosophy and standards as Mapufacture regarding free and open data and maps. In addition, they’ve focused more on quality attribution and metadata as well as precise tools for proper cartography. Important aspects that organizations have pointed out are missing from many of the other ‘mashup’ tools.
Mapufacture.com will stay up until all the pieces have been integrated into GeoCommons - so there shouldn’t be any interruption of the current maps. I’m also looking forward to showing off the newest tools and helping the community create some really powerful maps.
This is a very exciting development. Fantastic news - Congratulations, Andrew! I’m interested in learning more about GeoCommons. Sounds like a good fit.
I see that it stops mid-June, when does the system download July or subsequent months? Thanks.