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What to do when we have two events on the same date #161

Open timlinux opened 4 years ago

timlinux commented 4 years ago

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When clicking on a date that has more than one event, show a list of the events and their activation status in the side panel dashboard area and an (>) arrow that lets you drill down into them.

Let the calendar circle colour show the most severe states i.e. red if any of the events on that day is in status activation.

lucernae commented 4 years ago

Why we would have more than one event? Are we going to use different forecast source?

lucernae commented 4 years ago

Maybe we should check back with Hassan/Catalina/Erin first. In my opinion there would be one single forecast event in a day (for the whole Indonesia). We already able to drill down by district which shows which district is activated by that said forecast. What does two events on the same date supposed to mean?

timlinux commented 4 years ago

@lucernae imagine you have two different measuring points both in flood status

Or we have one event from Glofas and one from BMKG

Or somone uploads an event with a forecast date that matches the forecast date of another event

Lots of possibilities for the same date to be used

lucernae commented 4 years ago

I still doubt the usefulness.

You are thinking hazard-like while the trigger status is per-district or admin boundaries. When GloFAS or BMKG send forecasts, it was for the whole Indonesia. GloFAS can have multiple measuring points, but it is just one forecast day. If there are different area flooded, it is just one forecast event. What you describe here is drilling down the flood hazard not the forecast.

Or somone uploads an event with a forecast date that matches the forecast date of another event

Generally it should replace the current forecast event. Unless we are talking about different source of forecast (one from GloFAS, one from BMKG) where it would be calculated differently.

One other case where I think your scenario will work is if in a day there exists more than one forecast period. For example, every 4 hour or every 3 hours, like in weather forecast.