On Thu 01 May 2008, Andrew Black - lists <andrew-lists(a)mail.black1.org.uk> wrote:
I have a suggestion concerning maps (eg map of all
points in a
category). I would like to get the maps to be centred and scaled.
For example, in the following, all the points are off the displayed map.
http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?action=index;format=map;index_type…
The following is a quick demo to play with
http://www2.black1.org.uk/~andrew/map/exp_bounds.html
Click on a few points, hit "Reposition map" then repeat.
So are you saying that you'd like RGL category/locale maps to have a
"reposition map" button, or maybe that you'd like them to appear
"repositioned" by default? (Where "repositioned" means "zoomed
and
scaled so that all points in the category/locale appear on the map".)
I don't have any major problem with them appearing repositioned by
default. I do worry slightly about outliers, but outliers are
generally data entry bugs and this would be a good way of spotting
them. Also, your demo is an exact fit to the bounding box; I think we
need a margin as well so that points actually on the bounding box
appear properly instead of mostly off-map.
If I have understood correctly what you want - then could you supply a
patch to do this? (I'm assuming you wrote the code in the demo and
therefore understand how to do it - if not then I could probably have
a poke through and try to pick out the relevant bits but I don't know
when this will reach the top of my to-do list.)
Kake