Time Slider

Playback a map over a time series (like ​http://haiti.ushahidi.com/main).

Incorporate a manual slider & a 'Play' button.

This should work with both external WMS sources & internal Feature layers:

• S3Tracking of e.g. People, Vehicles, Assets
• stats_data layers (e.g. stats_demographic_data)
• showing resources with start/end dates, such as Incidents & Projects
• tracking Items through the Request, Procurement and Shipment stages

The slider could be based on jQueryUI, as we use this widget already & it will be familiar to people:

• ​http://jqueryui.com/slider/#range

GXP Widget could be a good approach:

• ​https://github.com/opengeo/gxp/blob/master/src/script/plugins/Timeline.js
• ​https://github.com/boundlessgeo/gxp/blob/master/src/script/widgets/slider/TimeSlider.js
• Example Usage:
  • ​https://github.com/opengeo/gxp/blob/master/examples/time-viewer.html
  • ​https://github.com/opengeo/gxp/blob/master/examples/time-viewer.js

This uses OpenLayers support from this repo:

• ​https://github.com/mpriour/TimeManager_OpenLayers-Addin

Old, alternative OpenLayers support notes:

• ​http://trac.openlayers.org/ticket/1395
• ​http://trac.osgeo.org/openlayers/wiki/Addins/TimedPointTrack

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BluePrint/GIS