[Evergreen-web-team] Evergreen Libraries map icon

[Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich]

I will add this to the agenda for the next web team meeting.  We can discuss what/how/when we want to do with this, if anything.

In the meantime,  I still support option 2) from Ben Shum's original post on this topic.

Alexey

On Jun 8, 2012, at 10:35 , Steve Wills wrote:

> Alexey,
> 
> here is an interesting discussion on clustering: http://drupal.org/node/1139088
> 
> Steve
> 
>  
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich [mailto:alexey.lazar at mnsu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2012 05:16 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Evergreen-web-team] Evergreen Libraries map icon
> 
> Thanks, that sounds like a good idea. This would be interesting to work on. Is there a special Drupal module for this, or how does this function, in general? We could discuss this at our next web meeting.
> 
> Alexey 
> 
> On Jun 7, 2012, at 15:33 , Jim Craner wrote:
> 
>> If this is something we're building out on the Evergreen Drupal prototype, we can use built-in point clustering to handle the density at the higher zooms without any manual tampering. I'll add this to the "things to consider" list. 
>> 
>> Thanks, Ben and Alexey!
>> -jc
>> 
>> On Jun 7, 2012, at 13:22, "Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich" <alexey.lazar at mnsu.edu> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jun 7, 2012, at 14:41 , Ben Shum wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>> I thought of two potential courses of action:
>>>> 
>>>> 1)  We continue to use the LibraryMarker.png image and seek the revised permission from Breeding.  If so, perhaps we need to incorporate a copyright statement on the origin of the file along with the file when we make it part of the website's git repository.
>>>> 
>>>> 2)  We can follow Ben's example and switch to using a more generic icon like the blue-dot.png instead.
>>>> 
>>>> Thoughts or opinions moving forward?
>>> <snip>
>>> 
>>> Of these choices, 2) would be better.
>>> 
>>> However, at most zoom levels (at least 0-5), both versions of the icon seem to impair map usability, because they obscure the base layer and locations almost entirely in dense areas.  If it is an option, a dot would work much better for this type of map at most zoom layers, thus creating a dot map.  Example: https://www.e-education.psu.edu/natureofgeoinfo/c3_p16.html, although for Evergreen libraries the relationship will be 1 to 1. A larger icon could be used for higher zoom levels.
>>> 


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