Implement Javascript map frontent

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OER World Map Prototype

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Implement Javascript map frontent #39

Closed literarymachine closed 10 years ago

literarymachine commented 10 years ago

Primitive first version deployed to http://oerworldmap.literarymachine.net/oerworldmap

acka47 commented 10 years ago

Here are some comments that come to my mind watching at the map. We might address some or all of these in future iterations.

I think the map should be presented more prominently (=bigger). See for example http://openaccessmap.org/ We should think about removing the menu side bar on the left side.
It may make sense to have different pins for the different resource types. (a person for person, building for organization or so etc.)
Links to the oerworldmap resource description should be in the box that opens when clicking on a pin.
And, of course, there's filter options to add (see #40, #57).

dr0i commented 10 years ago

looks nice! Experienced some minor issues, independent of browser (firefox, chrome,konqueror):

pins seems to not fit exactly at lower zooming level: as zooming deeper into the map the pins seem to shift into proper position. E.g. the orange pin "person: Jörg Lohrer" starts somewhere north africa and shifting to Germany when zooming.
opening an info box by clicking on a pin shifts the whole map (which is actually just a background and shouldn't shift at all IMO ) which I find confusing
filter by "person" and by country "Germany" losses "person: Adrian Pohl". May be of some missing data?

I would want to support @acka47 wish to have a bigger map. Some issues, like the shifting of the map when opening an info box, may also be gone by this.

literarymachine commented 10 years ago

pins seems to not fit exactly at lower zooming level: as zooming deeper into the map the pins seem to shift into proper position.

This issue seems to have crept in with the introduction of different markers. Will look into that.

opening an info box by clicking on a pin shifts the whole map (which is actually just a background and shouldn't shift at all IMO ) which I find confusing

It was like that, shifting the map was (re-)introduced at the request of @acka47 and @trugwaldsaenger

filter by "person" and by country "Germany" losses "person: Adrian Pohl". May be of some missing data?

Indeed - the data only contained coordinates but no link to a country. After adding that link, the filter works as expected.

I would want to support @acka47 wish to have a bigger map. Some issues, like the shifting of the map when opening an info box, may also be gone by this.

If time permits it, I will look into adding a larger map to the landing page.