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System playhead/scrubber bar in UI? #34

Open mathcolo opened 8 years ago

mathcolo commented 8 years ago

Since we in theory can show all positions at any particular point in time, would it be cool to have a playhead/scrubber bar? Then given a downed power line (or similar) you could look at how the network compensated (and what could have been improved potentially)

(Potentially more of a feature for data analysis rather than mass consumption, but interesting food for thought)

kireledan commented 8 years ago

That would be really cool. I'd like to try implementing that.

tinzerillo commented 8 years ago

I think this would be cool to have too! We can either make it a separate front end for analytics type features like this or add a new section on the nav bar

kireledan commented 8 years ago

It should work pretty well wherever a map is displayed. Just like a small box at the bottom center of the map or something like that.

tinzerillo commented 8 years ago

We actually don't have any maps. Right now we just have a list of each route. But I guess that wouldn't matter as we would just be moving the train images technically? Or we can make a map view in another place

kireledan commented 8 years ago

A concept like this would make more sense in a map-like context. Something that just shows the lines side by side with correct proportions or something.

mathcolo commented 8 years ago

So maybe we need multiple display formats optimized for different things...the current one, GMaps overlay, and then something else that's optimized less for station name and more for overall network/train density? The MBTA actually provides track schematics that might be nice to overlay on too.

Regardless Erik if you want this, it's yours ;)