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Changing approach for time spans #199

Closed mushon closed 7 years ago

mushon commented 7 years ago

@josefspr I looked into the issue of the time spans and I wonder whether we should necessarily show them the way we do now. Right now we centralize the marker in the middle of the span and show the span at all times. This gives a much higher hierarchy to span markers that in some cases can even span centuries and it also marks the center as an arbitrary marker while in many cases the event start is much more substantial than its end. In fact in many span cases like we previously discussed the span is not an actual span but an estimation.

I wonder if it doesn't maybe make more sense to show the span only on hover, especially in the case of estimations. Also we might want to show the marker at the beginning of a span rather than at its middle.

josefspr commented 7 years ago

I agree about estimations. there are some century spans that my assistant entered that are not good and we'll remove them. The thing is that the most common use of spans are life periods of people. I would like to see these periods in relation to other things, such as overlapping with other life spans or oeuvres of the same or other people. What I say is the the span is only meaningful in relation to other spans of events.

mushon commented 7 years ago

True. Specifically life time spans make no sense in the context of an event. Life is never a single event and should not be presented as such. If we want a separate view for comparison of people's life spans it should be a separate feature.

josefspr commented 7 years ago

I am not referring to birth/death timespans but to life periods in places that is very relevant. e.g. - An artist living and working in Berlin and then working in Palestine etc... I you filter by this person your see intervals of life periods, points of oeuvres and annotations that create a mapping of his activity.

mushon commented 7 years ago

In that case we can simply choose to activate time spans (before hover) only in filtered mode

josefspr commented 7 years ago

so you're suggesting different displays of filtered and non-filtered map/timeline - the timespans and also the layout on y-axis, right ?

mushon commented 7 years ago

Yes

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so you're suggesting different displays of filtered and non-filtered map/timeline - the timespans and also the layout on y-axis, right ?

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