Discussion and tickets supporting the Explore/Visualize section of the Data Portal
Explore/Visualize page mockup - existing pages do not follow mock-up yet, but close.
Existing Framework
Main Explore/Visualize page
- Latest data snapshot, fast to load
- repackaging of existing Current Observation Maps page
- see Cached Maps for map creation details
- Subregions desired?
=> Map Finder
- Simple form driven cached map selector
- see existing MapFinder
- Have AJAX image swapping ready to implement
=> Interactive Map
- more detailed spatial, temporal, and variable exploration
- see existing Interactive Map
- development details at OpenLayers IM development page
New Ideas
=> Map Finder
- Page to display cached maps of dif vars same time and iterate through - like SEACOOS HYCOM model viz
- User to select images to compare - different vars or time slices (see WIST examples)
- Drifter data - multiple "tail" lengths?
- WMS URL builder - or dynamic output from all map pages (i.e map syndication)
- Better, more intuitive SST scale?
- Color for speed in QS representation
- Additional pages - form driven via WMS
- Query based (dynamic)
- Returns format, time, extent users want
=> Interactive Map
- Better sourcing for GetFeatureInfo request (handles point querires)
- Cleanup/standardize info that returns - now dif for each variable queries (different tables in the DB/Layers in MapServer)
- Dan and Jeremy have experimented with SQLite via MapServer+OGR for Carolina's RCOOS - works well.
- Better, more intuitive SST scale?
- Better links back to original data - Mitch comment
- or better access beyond flat map slice - to full DB records / timeseries
- Created premade OL apps to distribute, pre-populated with SECOORA data?
- Could zip up OpenLayers.JS and Instance.js to distribute and unzip for local development?
- WMS URL builder - or dynamic output from all map pages (i.e map syndication) (OGC component)
- Enable queries back through time
- Precise time vs offset hours?
- Color for speed in QS representation
