Comments on: Designing data… http://www.technogoggles.com/2006/11/designing-data/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:57:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Chris Riley http://www.technogoggles.com/2006/11/designing-data/comment-page-1/#comment-34 Chris Riley Thu, 09 Nov 2006 19:42:02 +0000 http://www.technogoggles.com/?p=44#comment-34 <p>In its present state not sure how you could make this more useful. However if the data sets span time periods, then things are more interesting. A feed or api could then open up the map image urls for particular points in time, and using the api you could create animations, slideshows, interfaces into the maps over time?</p> <p>Another thought, can they get this data out in a kmz/kml file for use on Google Maps / Earth? That would see a huge potential audience suddenly sit up and want to make use of the data...</p> <p>Anyway, back to the mundane stuff :o)</p> In its present state not sure how you could make this more useful. However if the data sets span time periods, then things are more interesting. A feed or api could then open up the map image urls for particular points in time, and using the api you could create animations, slideshows, interfaces into the maps over time?

Another thought, can they get this data out in a kmz/kml file for use on Google Maps / Earth? That would see a huge potential audience suddenly sit up and want to make use of the data…

Anyway, back to the mundane stuff :o )

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