Submitted by maniacmusician (not verified) on September 18, 2008 - 07:36.
Hey,
How about adding visible and good looking chronological/spatial indicators such as arrows along the connecting lines? The quantity and size of such indicators could be calculated relative to the pixel-size of the map widget and zoom level (with indicators outside the zoom level being painted off screen, etc).
You could also implement a temporal indicator using color coding of the different lines, with a configurable and auto-adjusting legend. The legend configuration could have a linear gradient with possibly multiple color inputs (say red and blue, or more if the user chooses). Then, depending on the number of series added by the user, Trippy would choose appropriately plotted colors to show on the legend, which could then indicate colors respective to configurable time frames (last six months, last year, last 3 years, etc) --- perhaps you could even design a "temporal zoom" that would allow you to smoothly zoom in and out of time frames.
Hovering over a line could show the dates between which the series of pictures were taken, and hovering over a certain location could have various descriptive details, and perhaps a thumbnail slideshow using fade animations.
Are there any plans to integrate this into Digikam? I know they were messing around with geotagging as well, and this seems like a useful and innovative to implement that.
Sorry if anything I wrote is already there -- I don't have a current version of KDE on which to build this. Also, it's just constructive feedback, what you've done already is great. I figure since I can't code to save my life, tossing around some new ideas to maybe inspire someone couldn't hurt.
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Hey,
How about adding visible and good looking chronological/spatial indicators such as arrows along the connecting lines? The quantity and size of such indicators could be calculated relative to the pixel-size of the map widget and zoom level (with indicators outside the zoom level being painted off screen, etc).
You could also implement a temporal indicator using color coding of the different lines, with a configurable and auto-adjusting legend. The legend configuration could have a linear gradient with possibly multiple color inputs (say red and blue, or more if the user chooses). Then, depending on the number of series added by the user, Trippy would choose appropriately plotted colors to show on the legend, which could then indicate colors respective to configurable time frames (last six months, last year, last 3 years, etc) --- perhaps you could even design a "temporal zoom" that would allow you to smoothly zoom in and out of time frames.
Hovering over a line could show the dates between which the series of pictures were taken, and hovering over a certain location could have various descriptive details, and perhaps a thumbnail slideshow using fade animations.
Are there any plans to integrate this into Digikam? I know they were messing around with geotagging as well, and this seems like a useful and innovative to implement that.
Sorry if anything I wrote is already there -- I don't have a current version of KDE on which to build this. Also, it's just constructive feedback, what you've done already is great. I figure since I can't code to save my life, tossing around some new ideas to maybe inspire someone couldn't hurt.