Grid viewer now has servers which are only selectable if the regions selected are chosen. Drop downs are now more based on metadata and not old quicksilver facets.
The next steps will be expanding the conditional handling, futhering the migration from a single-pane to two-panes with the top focusing on metadata and selections and the bottom focusing on the map and repeated queries.... and dealing with new servers and services and making sure all the metadata performs as expected (and probably a few paradigm shifts to allow changes in what 'expected' is).
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Thursday, May 21, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Lots of little usability improvements to Quicksilver
Today I managed to get the scroll-wheel zooming and small map overview working on google maps. I also externalized the legend API so one can set new boundaries for what turns a particular region red or yellow or green. Tomorrow will be some debugging of that API, then some discussions of how to implement cool new features and reduce annoyingly long load times and "this script is taking forever" type errors.
Friday, October 24, 2008
The data, it is in the database.
So today, I managed to get the polygons for the ~3500 counties into a database.
I used maven (and found some places where maven was being very odd). I used SAX (and found some places where SAX was being very odd). I used eclipse (and.. well, you get the idea).
It was one of those weird coding days... where I was pressed on only by the faith I had that I could get it working and that my brain had set it all up in my mind. And thankfully that seems to be the case. I was going to try and just brute force REGEX/parse the XML string into the objects I needed without using any sort of XML parser (because I wasn't that familiar with SAX/DOM/Etc) but I found out that I couldn't really think of a way to do it... and that is a good thing because I'm sure whatever I would have turned out would have been a candidate for some of those "LOL at this horrible code" type websites.
Instead, I have a little SAX parser that is elegant, fast, and coupled to a little prepared-statement inserter that is also elegant and fast. And I should be able to use it relatively quickly for when I need to load zipcodes.
Now, the next big step ahead of me is to finalize the "pull these counties and then draw these counties" map for poicondai. Then I also have to do the same thing for zip codes. And then make everything look better.
Here's to demonstrations.
I used maven (and found some places where maven was being very odd). I used SAX (and found some places where SAX was being very odd). I used eclipse (and.. well, you get the idea).
It was one of those weird coding days... where I was pressed on only by the faith I had that I could get it working and that my brain had set it all up in my mind. And thankfully that seems to be the case. I was going to try and just brute force REGEX/parse the XML string into the objects I needed without using any sort of XML parser (because I wasn't that familiar with SAX/DOM/Etc) but I found out that I couldn't really think of a way to do it... and that is a good thing because I'm sure whatever I would have turned out would have been a candidate for some of those "LOL at this horrible code" type websites.
Instead, I have a little SAX parser that is elegant, fast, and coupled to a little prepared-statement inserter that is also elegant and fast. And I should be able to use it relatively quickly for when I need to load zipcodes.
Now, the next big step ahead of me is to finalize the "pull these counties and then draw these counties" map for poicondai. Then I also have to do the same thing for zip codes. And then make everything look better.
Here's to demonstrations.
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