RE: [Mapbuilder-devel] WMS Time Series now supported!

[Mike.Adair@CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca]

Thanks,  it was especially interesting to see how easy it was to add in the
zoom button bar, and it actually worked as expected.  Adding the CSS was
dead simple too and made a big difference in how the page looked, which is
great because that's the way it's supposed to work.

All those are good ideas, it's a matter of finding time to do it.  Most of
the changes I made the other day aren't in CVS yet. 

Mike



-----Original Message-----
From: Cameron Shorter [mailto:sho...@op...]
Sent: February 16, 2005 5:28 AM
To: Mike.Adair@CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca
Cc: map...@li...
Subject: Re: [Mapbuilder-devel] WMS Time Series now supported!


Mike,
I'm blown away by how great this looks.  It would be good if we could 
get some dynamic weather maps.  There is a non-OpenGIS example of rain 
radar for Sydney, Australia at:
http://mirror.bom.gov.au/products/IDR033.loop.shtml#image
(Only interesting if it is raining).

Some more feedback as I look at it:
1. The demo is looping too fast to appreciate what is happening.  I 
think it should be slowed down a bit.
2. Probably would be good to have a slider widget which allows you to 
change the loop speed.
3. Also, you could have a slider so that you can manually fast 
forward/go back etc.
4. Another button could be a "Move forward one frame" button.
5. For these layers it would be very useful to have a Legend explaining 
what each colour means.  Eg, for Temperature:
Blue = 0 - 5degrees C
Yellow = ...
I'm not sure if that is provided by the WMS you are accessing.
6. I'm not sure if you have tried hiding the Time Series layer by 
unselecting the layer in the Map Legend.  It doesn't work.  (I suggest 
you raise a bug report on it as I suspect you won't have time to fix it 
before next release).

Mike.Adair@CCRS.NRCan.gc.ca wrote:

>I've added a few new contexts to the time series demo.  The first 2 you can
>zoom in and the movie loop loads.  Check it out at:
>http://geoservices.cgdi.ca/mapbuilder/demo/timeSeries.html
>
>Also added in CSS and modified the table layout.
>  
>