Documentation for create (+ features)

okfn / timemapper

Create and share elegant timelines and timemaps fast

http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/

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Documentation for create (+ features) #85

Closed rufuspollock closed 10 years ago

rufuspollock commented 10 years ago

Add to bottom of create page ...

[x] basic docs - i.e. the instructions we have in the post
[ ] publish to the web faq with screenshots (copy this across from the announce post)
[x] Screencast walkthrough
[x] geocoding in gdocs - see http://schoolofdata.org/2013/02/19/geocoding-part-ii-geocoding-data-in-a-google-docs-spreadsheet/
[x] geojson support
[x] us / non-us dates
[ ] opacity

Note a lot of these would benefit from a link to examples (aside: i was thinking about creating a special "demos" user where we could store demos but linking to specific users is probably fine for the moment ...)

rufuspollock commented 10 years ago

Note that template now has instructions and formula for geocoding ... https://docs.google.com/a/okfn.org/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqR8dXc6Ji4JdFRNOTVYYTRqTmh6TUNNd3U2X2pKMGc&usp=drive_web#gid=0

rufuspollock commented 10 years ago

@nmashton how are you getting on here? Are you happy to own this issue?

nmashton commented 10 years ago

@rgrp Opened a Trello ticket on it a few days ago; got held up by DevInit study wrapup and census stuff, but happy to own it and will be working on it in the immediate future.

nmashton commented 10 years ago

@rgrp How does opacity work? There's nothing about it in the template, and the Napoleonic Battles examples is unclear.

rufuspollock commented 10 years ago

@nmashton what remains here - would love to get this closed out :-)

@nmashton opacity is calculated automatically - see code at https://github.com/okfn/timemapper/blob/master/public/js/view.js#L122 (essentially opacity goes 0.3 to 1.0 based on how near start or end of timeline the event is). Frankly, don't think opacity works very well atm.

@nmashton think we could copy across basic tutorial almost from your blog post - esp stuff about publish to the web. (I've added something but may not be perfect and screenshots are always better!)

rufuspollock commented 10 years ago

@nmashton video is really good - well done. i've now put on front page and elsewhere (btw embedding is much better than linking - people don't click links!).

One immediate request: could you configure the default image for video (before its started). If you log in you can usually configure this. I'd suggest having it be the final image of what the nice timemap looks like

Some small thoughts for improvements (if we did again):

Perhaps start on front page and click through to create page
Would be nice to explain where spreadsheet comes from - that isn't really explained. Perhaps have you show the4 template and then just cut and say - "here's one i created earlier ..."

rufuspollock commented 10 years ago

@nmashton i think we leave opacity documentation for the moment - its not very clear or useful (its more a feature anyway ...)

rufuspollock commented 10 years ago

FIXED. Once the video goes back up!