[okfn-discuss] TimeMapper - Create Elegant TimeMaps from Google Spreadsheets in seconds

Mon Oct 14 13:43:51 UTC 2013

Looks nice, but why do you have to sign up using a twitter account? And why google spreadsheets? What if you don't have an account with either of those? For future applications can you design it so you don't need twitter or google?

Gene 

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 From: Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>
To: okfn-discuss <okfn-discuss at lists.okfn.org> 
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2013 3:34 AM
Subject: [okfn-discuss] [ANN] TimeMapper - Create Elegant TimeMaps from Google Spreadsheets in seconds

Hi All,
TimeMapper is a new web app from Open Knowledge Foundation Labs that lets you create interactive timemaps from Google spreadsheets quickly and easily.

http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org

More information in this post: http://okfnlabs.org/blog/2013/10/11/timemapper.html

Examples:
	* Major Battles in the Napoleonic Wars

	* Medieval Philosophers
	* US City Bankruptcies since the Financial Crisis
	* Archaeology of Wine
The site is a simple node.js app with storage into s3. The timemap viz is pure JS built using KnightLabs excellent Timeline.js for the timeline and Leaflet (with OSM) for the maps. For those interested in the code it can be found here: https://github.com/okfn/timemapper/

Regards,

Rufus
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