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

Mon Oct 14 23:21:57 UTC 2013

Rufus

This is a very nice interface and I especially like the US municipal
bankruptcy example.

Since you include Jefferson County with the bankrupt cities, you may also
wish to add Boise County, Idaho for completeness.  Please see
http://boiseguardian.com/2011/03/02/boise-county-bankruptcy-is-historic/. I
would be happy to make the addition if you're willing to permit me to alter
your sample.

Marc

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Subject: Re: [okfn-discuss] [ANN] TimeMapper - Create Elegant TimeMaps from
Google Spreadsheets in seconds

On Monday, 14 October 2013, Gene Shackman wrote:

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?

Twitter: happy to have another sign in mechanism but want something quick
and convenient for most people that involved them already having reserved a
unique username. Specifically we wanted to avoid being responsible, at this
point, for doing the whole signup process (storing passwords, doing password
recovery, handling spam accounts etc)

Re google spreadsheets: its the best simple tabular data backend and one
that very large number of people use. JSON and straight up CSV could easily
be supported but they are more complex and are more complex for non-techhies
to use (e.g. can't just be any CSV would need to be one CORS accessible
etc).

Rufus

Gene 

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

Hi All,

TimeMapper <http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/>  is a new web app from Open
Knowledge Foundation Labs <http://okfnlabs.org/>  that lets you create
interactive timemaps from Google spreadsheets quickly and easily.

 <http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/> http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org

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

Examples:

*	Major Battles in the Napoleonic Wars
<http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/rufuspollock/major-battles-napoleonic-wars> 
*	Medieval Philosophers
<http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/okfn/medieval-philosophers> 
*	US City Bankruptcies since the Financial Crisis
<http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/rufuspollock/us-city-bankruptcies> 
*	Archaeology of Wine
<http://timemapper.okfnlabs.org/adamrabinowitz/archaeowinetimeliner> 

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/>
https://github.com/okfn/timemapper/ 

Regards,

Rufus

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