[Evergreen-web-team] Evergreen Libraries map icon

[Ben Shum]

Hi Alexey,

When is the next meeting planned?

Since I didn't see any new discussion on this topic for the last couple 
weeks, I had actually already begun an inquiry to Marshall Breeding 
regarding use of the icon via option 1.  It seemed prudent to begin 
addressing the problem where copyright is concerned rather than wait too 
long.  We can still discuss what the eventual decision will be.

-- Ben

On 6/21/12 12:30 PM, Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich wrote:
> 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
>> To: 'Evergreen Community Web Team Email List'
>> 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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