North Carolina is changing colors.

So, I finally got data pulling into the map.

It's just North Carolina, and it doesn't show a graph, but it pulls data.

I had to do a lot of debugging and found that the service is very particular about regions within the boundaries being passed in, and I had to build the list of available conditions... and I know there is a lot of tweaking and changing to be made in order for things to start behaving... This helps map out the ways the application will need to act as well (no selecting regions that aren't available, etc)

But hey, AMDS data in polygon(s). Yay!

Yay for the Douglas-Peucker algorithm

So, encoding the polygons worked. The map now displays much faster and without any of the nasty "this script is taking a long time" errors that were plaguing it before, even in IE.

Firefox (and especially Chrome) are still faster than IE, usually with little things like scroll-zoom, but IE is no longer the annoying almost unusable experience it was before, which is good considering a lot more people use IE.

Otherwise, we are about to code-wrap version 1 for a deploy to the SDN, so the most recent dev build should be ported to training tomorrow morning. In addition to the polygon improvements, the passwords will be updated (and you'll have to contact Brian Lee at fya1@cdc.gov to get a new one) and outliers will be much harder to find considering I fixed the logic with the evaluation part of the C2 algorithm. There are some other small UI tweaks and I can't wait to show them to people.

This project has come a long way, and all the things I thought were near impossible turned out to be rather easy (consequently, all the stuff I thought would be easy turned out to be much more annoying than anticipated). Either way, I am excited.

Cheers!

Encoded Polygons draw and popup

Most of today was spent making a series of UI tweaks that were requested. Now the legends are adjusted a bit, some extra labels were added, and a link to the help page is on the development version.

I wanted to play with the encoded GMapPolygons before I went home, so I made sure I could replicate the functionality that I already had, and made thus, with the help of Alabama, I now know I can place an encoded gmap polygon with the same click-for-popup and color/shading properties.

Tomorrow will be spent enacting this. I am probably going to try setting up on-the-fly translation, and then work on storing encoded polygons in the database (namely because I can think in my head how to do an on-the-fly translation and there are some tricky bits with database storage of dual strings that I don't want to start there...

Either way, here's to hoping for a vast improvement in performance by tomorrow afternoon.