Great set of examples (exemplars)

[rufuspollock]

• [x] Medieval Philosophers
• [ ] Dickens letters (?) - cf https://github.com/okfn/openletters/issues/10
• [x] Battles in Napoleonic Wars - feature temporal shading - http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/rufuspollock/major-battles-napoleonic-wars
• [ ] Battle of Verdun #83 - feature geojson
• [ ] Financial panics / manias (cf Kindelberger who has a section at the end of the book)
• [ ] Empires through history - geojson
• [x] US city bankruptcies - http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/rufuspollock/us-city-bankruptcies
• [ ] A trip or speaking activities in a given time period
• [ ] timemap of renaissance (+ post-renaissance) painting (cf David Hockney timemap in Secret Knowledge about spread of painting techniques across Europe)

[nmashton]

• [ ] Idle No More: First Nations protests in Canada
• [ ] disturbances in East Turkestan
• [ ] attacks on Muslims by Buddhist extremists in Myanmar
• [ ] self-immolations in Tibet
• [ ] civil war in Nepal
• [ ] the opening up of Myanmar
• [ ] Maoist rebellions in India

[noelmas]

• [ ] History of various genres of music esp. more recent ones such as funk, disco, house and techno using the Discogs.com database and their style category
• [ ] The history of the printing press
• [ ] The history of the human genome project and its proprietary counterpart

[rufuspollock]

From @atomrab http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/adamrabinowitz/archaeowinetimeliner

[rufuspollock]

Napoleonic wars done http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/rufuspollock/major-battles-napoleonic-wars - demonstrates use of size attribute and temporal shading.

[thtbln]

I'd be happy to provide another example (cultural history), but I can't create a time map with the first 2 rows of data:

1. data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AgMQuQ9EoBCAdGFFLTZock1Hb3hDRlVUSVJ1ZDRvT1E&output=html
2. spreadsheet is published, visibility set to "Anyone who has the link..."
3. while using the button Connect&Publish there's a message "Please fill this field" (in German): https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BXa5m6QCYAEpBKg.png:large

tweets (Oct. 25): https://twitter.com/ThTBln/status/393702581341417472 https://twitter.com/ThTBln/status/393706376926474241 https://twitter.com/ThTBln/status/393706095559991297

[rufuspollock]

@thtbln sorry for slow reply. Issue if you are using "published" doc url - you just want the original spreadsheet url which is https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgMQuQ9EoBCAdGFFLTZock1Hb3hDRlVUSVJ1ZDRvT1E#gid=0 (worked for me). "Please fill in the field" is because the url you have does not work (not very informative message!)

[nmashton]

@thtbln I was just about to say the same thing as @rgrp, except I was also going to point out that the URL you want is found in your doc's Share box.

@rgrp: It's confusing that you have to publish to the web and then copy a URL that doesn't have anything to do with the publication. Would it be possible to get TimeMapper to understand the "published" URL in the future?

[thtbln]

@rgrp: Thanks for your reply. There must be something else. First I tried https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgMQuQ9EoBCAdGFFLTZock1Hb3hDRlVUSVJ1ZDRvT1E#gid=0 and got the same message "Please fill in the field". Then I got the link from my original spreadsheet: which is https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgMQuQ9EoBCAdGFFLTZock1Hb3hDRlVUSVJ1ZDRvT1E&usp=sharing With this link I got first the message, that the document is not accessible: When I used "Connect and Publish" again, the message "Please fill in the field" followed. I also tried https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgMQuQ9EoBCAdGFFLTZock1Hb3hDRlVUSVJ1ZDRvT1E#gid=0 and https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgMQuQ9EoBCAdGFFLTZock1Hb3hDRlVUSVJ1ZDRvT1E with the same results.

[rufuspollock]

Worked for me immediately using https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgMQuQ9EoBCAdGFFLTZock1Hb3hDRlVUSVJ1ZDRvT1E#gid=0. Here's the result: http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/rufuspollock/sizilien

@thtbln we should really start a separate issue here rather than abuse this one (if we continue to find problems!)