TIMELINE. Different Timeline Units

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This application could have many uses beyond a temporal aspect....
basically anything that falls on a scale could be plotted.... mass, length,
height, volume, weight.... etc. If the units were metric, it would be
easier than plotting time.... and would expand the usefulness of the
software. I'd like to use the software to make something similar to the
timeline but with length in meters as the units instead of time. Is that
possible?

[Submitted by Charlie Kershner on simile.mit.edu] 

Josh Reed - 06/Mar/08 01:50 PM
I, too, would be interested in being able to plot a timeline but using
meters as the units instead of time. I'm trying to visualize points and
ranges along a meter scale.
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Josh Reed - 06/Mar/08 01:50 PM I, too, would be interested in being able to
plot a timeline but using meters as the units instead of time. I'm trying
to visualize points and ranges along a meter scale.

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Josh Reed - 10/Mar/08 05:41 PM
I have put together some preliminary metric depth units support as an
extension out at: http://hg.andrill.org/timeline-depth/archive/tip.zip
I can also supply a svn diff if that is useful.

This extension is based largely on the planning units and the geochrono
units code. I don't fully understand all of the Timeline internals, so it
was a bit of a monkey see, monkey do job. Anyhow, the current version
supports meters - kilometers as my data was coming in as meters. However,
it should be trivial to add support for other depth units.

If you want to use this extension in your own project, I think you will
need to run your own locally-served version of Timeline. I was running into
cross domain issues when I tried to use the Simile-hosted version of
Timeline with the depth extension served locally.

If this code is useful to others, I don't mind cleaning it up and
contributing it to the project.

Cheers,
Josh

Original issue reported on code.google.com by GabrielR...@googlemail.com on 8 Apr 2009 at 3:12