[okfn-labs] Timeliner: http://timeliner.reclinejs.com/ - makes nice timelines fast

Thu Aug 16 12:43:49 UTC 2012

Hi All,

Having a bit of time on Sunday I've put some rudimentary map support
into the Timeliner:

<http://timeliner.reclinejs.com/?backend=gdocs&url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aon3JiuouxLUdDQ3QlJhOHJnS2x0NkxibUp1YnYwR1E%23gid=0#explorer>

To make this really work of course more needs to be done (especially
some form of selection so the map and timeline are tied together). Any
bugs or suggestions please add to the issue tracker:

<https://github.com/okfn/timeliner>

Contributions are also very welcome (and very easy - the code is *very* simple!)

Rufus

On 8 August 2012 11:58, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> As part of the Recline launch I put together some demo apps one of
> which was Timeliner:
>
> <http://timeliner.reclinejs.com/>
>
> This uses the Recline timeline component (which itself is a relatively
> thin wrapper around the *excellent* Verite timeline [1]) plus the
> Google docs backend to provide an easy way for people to make
> timelines backed by a Google Docs spreadsheet.
>
> As an example of use, I started work on a "spending stories" timeline
> about the bankruptcy of US cities (esp in California) as a result of
> the "Great Recession" (source spreadsheet [2]):
>
> <http://timeliner.reclinejs.com/?backend=gdocs&url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aon3JiuouxLUdDQ3QlJhOHJnS2x0NkxibUp1YnYwR1E%23gid=0#explorer>
>
> Regards,
>
> Rufus
>
> [1]: http://timeline.verite.co/
> [2]: <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aon3JiuouxLUdDQ3QlJhOHJnS2x0NkxibUp1YnYwR1E#gid=0>
>
> ### Code
>
> Source code for the Timeliner is here:
>
> https://github.com/okfn/timeliner
>
> And there are bunch of improvements I'd like to make:
>
> https://github.com/okfn/timeliner/issues

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