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Threatwiki - genocide risk tracking and visualization platform to help monitor communities at risk of genocide around the world
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Allow to assign an icon to a datapoint (to be used for future visualization) #84

Open jeromegv opened 11 years ago

jeromegv commented 11 years ago

Based onThe United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs (OCHA) 500 freely available humanitarian icons

http://mw1.google.com/crisisresponse/icons/un-ocha/index.html

http://unocha.org/top-stories/all-stories/ocha-launches-500-free-humanitarian-symbols

sarahf commented 11 years ago

This is an interesting possibility; visual cues are always good. I wonder however if the icons should be linked somehow through the tags or categories, since they indicate important info that should be covered by that metadata anyway.

I also concerned, given the many kinds of events/datapoints we have, about: a) The ability to graphically represent them in a way that makes immediate sense. Events like transferring prisoners or the expulsion of students are especially hard to depict. b) Having too many kinds of icons so that the only way to see them on a map is through filtering.