18th March 2007, 05:10 PM
Kevin -
This is far from the end of the exercise, but you'r right about the level of detail. When Oxford Archaeology add a FeatureID that links back to more details, that will also be added to the InfoWindow.
This layer will be the first of many different layers that can be toggled in the browser so it's easily possible to mix many different datasets from many different sources. That will be the real benefit of this exercise - merging data that is usually only available separately.
I intentionally left detail out of my post to encourage discussion. For example, clicking on a feature could, if the data was available, show polyline/polygon data of actual features, or the results on field surveys. The InfoWindow can be tabbed to display a one to many relationship between feature and more details. You could for example show 1995 excavation details on one Tab, 2005 excavation details on another Tab.
The proof of concept was that the freely available Google Maps API can be used as a neutral interface to display archaeological data from many different sources with minimal effort and cost. Should more data become open access in this manner, it would be possible to embed media (dig videos/commentaries/tutorials) inside an InfoWindow.
thanks,
Steve
This is far from the end of the exercise, but you'r right about the level of detail. When Oxford Archaeology add a FeatureID that links back to more details, that will also be added to the InfoWindow.
This layer will be the first of many different layers that can be toggled in the browser so it's easily possible to mix many different datasets from many different sources. That will be the real benefit of this exercise - merging data that is usually only available separately.
I intentionally left detail out of my post to encourage discussion. For example, clicking on a feature could, if the data was available, show polyline/polygon data of actual features, or the results on field surveys. The InfoWindow can be tabbed to display a one to many relationship between feature and more details. You could for example show 1995 excavation details on one Tab, 2005 excavation details on another Tab.
The proof of concept was that the freely available Google Maps API can be used as a neutral interface to display archaeological data from many different sources with minimal effort and cost. Should more data become open access in this manner, it would be possible to embed media (dig videos/commentaries/tutorials) inside an InfoWindow.
thanks,
Steve