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

Mon Oct 14 13:56:10 UTC 2013

Thanks, Rufus. Exciting indeed!

Meredith

On Oct 14, 2013, at 3:30 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> TimeMapper is a new simple Labs app that lets you build, save and share 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
> 
> Tweet: http://twitter.com/OKFNLabs/status/388741882324340736
> 
> Examples:
> Major Battles in the Napoleonic Wars
> Medieval Philosophers
> US City Bankruptcies since the Financial Crisis
> Archaeology of Wine
> In terms of the internals the app is a basic 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
> 
> PS: if you’re wondering what is the relation of this to Timeliner - TimeMapper is the evolution of Timeliner into a fully-fledged app (Timeliner - despite its name! - actually did timemaps!) and Timeliner will soon be deprecated in favour of TimeMapper!
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