Project Proposal

[cushinj]

I work for the State's energy authority. We tend do put out a lot of raw data in Excel format. It is difficult to use, find, and visualize. I plan to import a sheet of this data, link to content through svg, and add tools to analyze the data (different lists and organizations of said data). I am using an Excel report on clean energy jobs in New York State by county.

-Justin Cushing

[st...@sunyit.edu]

Very cool.

Could you provide a link to your wiki that includes the requested details? Thanks!

[cushinj]

I didn't notice the details needed for the project proposal. Sorry about that. I put together a full proposal page here:

http://sunypoly-cushinj-proposal.tiddlyspot.com/

It also links to my in-progress project (it will be done later today).

Thanks,

-Justin

On Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 8:08:49 AM UTC-4, cushinj wrote:

[@TiddlyTweeter]

I looked.

The SVG map at http://sunypoly-cushinj-project.tiddlyspot.com/#Choose%20a%20County is phenomenal!

Suggestion 1: not sure if its possible, but if it could display the County Name on hover it would make it more
intuitive.

Suggestion 2: as is your Tiddler story sequence is opening "latest at top". To prevent the map jumping about I'd suggest opening the clicked items BELOW the story river. This can be configured at:
$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Settings/LinkToBehaviour

[cushinj]

Thanks. You make a good point about the county names. In retrospect, I wish I had used this SVG:

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:New_York_Counties.svg

I might be able to get some sort of hover over effect. My first thought is using the SVG's id as it contains the county name.

The latest at the top is a good idea. Related to that (sort of), I was trying to find a solution for if a user clicks a county, closes that tiddler, then clicks that county again. Currently, nothing will happen because the page's url already has #ThatCountysName. The best idea I have is to add some sort of #clear link, but I wish I could associate it with the closing of a tiddler.

Thanks!
Justin

[st...@sunyit.edu]

Justin, this is really great. Could you detail what you needed to do to the SVG to make it link to tiddlers? (for some reason, I'm not at the moment able to save/modify the wiki the way I've been doing, using TiddlyDesktop, so my ability to experiment is limited.)

I seems there are two SVG county maps of NY state on Wikipedia:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ee/Map_of_New_York_County_Outlines.svg -- which provides county outlines. Importantly, it identifies each county as a polygon with the name of the county.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/New_York_Counties.svg -- which names the counties, but does not seem to use the polygon approach, and thus does not seem to have county name as a hook.

But see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Attribute/xlink:href for discussion of xlink. Is this SVG 2?

Did you put the <a href="#CountyName"> in by hand? That is where the mouse-over or hover would go...

By the way, your project is being talked about :) here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/Yz0-Y_bFgVE

//steve.

[cushinj]

Thanks, I'll look to switch out the SVG when I'm back home. I added the links using find and replace in Dreamweaver. It has a powerfull wildcard feature that let me save the id (each County name was stored as an id within the SVG) as wildcard using ([^<]*) and reusing it within the code by referencing to it with $1. It is very similar to some of the functionality available within Tiddlywiki. I did have to manually fix St. Lawrence.

It is cool to see it mentioned elsewhere. Added motivation to get those recommended updates live.

Thanks again!

-Justin

[st...@sunyit.edu]

OK, good that you didn't have to manually edit the svg code. I was doing the same kind of thing in my editor (emacs), to play around. 

[cushinj]

My tiddler is updated so there are little popup boxes when you hover over a county. I also made the tiddlers open in a consistent way (unfortunately at the top, but I couldn't make the county links open below).

-Justin

On Thursday, March 15, 2018 at 8:08:49 AM UTC-4, cushinj wrote: