tools for customization of representation of places (priority: gap desired)

[atomrab]

It would be very helpful to have some control over the symbology of places in the map display, especially if the database has the capacity to handle extra fields like "place type". Being able to color code by place type or some other user-defined value, as in the original Hestia instance, would probably be more effective than color coding by frequency.

[enridaga]

@ekansa do you think it is possible to add the place type to the place record in the book json? Eg:

{"id":"375","uri":"http:\/\/pleiades.stoa.org\/places\/570536","title":"Oresthasion","ll":[37.345994,22.206506], "type": "settlement"},

And how many place type are available? Can they be listed at the root of the book json? Eg:

{"id":"1","title":"Herodotus Histories - Hestia data", ... , "place-types" : ["settlement","city", ?, ... ] ... }

WDYT?

[enridaga]

Will select some place types from http://pelagios.org/recogito/ just to have an idea and implement the feature working with fake data. I will base the implementation on the above example.

[ekansa]

Finally have a moment to get to this.

We can add feature types, but we don't have the data yet. I'm looking over the Pleiades URIs and services to see where we can get some relevant data.

Here's an example: http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/1001889/json

As far as I can see there's no clear feature type that we can add. Do you see some Enrico?

[enridaga]

Hi Eric, thank you for your feedback, it looks like we overlapped :)

Does not matter, I think. I will start doing something with fake examples, and as soon as the feature is supported by some data we will further evaluate it.

On 11 March 2014 13:31, Eric Kansa notifications@github.com wrote:

Finally have a moment to get to this.

We can add feature types, but we don't have the data yet. I'm looking over the Pleiades URIs and services to see where we can get some relevant data.

Here's an example: http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/1001889/json

As far as I can see there's no clear feature type that we can add. Do you see some Enrico?

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[enridaga]

This has been implemented. See also https://github.com/enridaga/gapvis/issues/22