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Yes, there is already a log scale in there but it's a bit hidden. You can click the 'Options' in the 'How' section and change the scale. I've also thought about a per capita option (which would be pretty straight forward for sets where I have the population) so that if say someone puts the total amount of carbon emission in there by country it would be an option to convert that per capita. If only I had more time in…

There seems to be a lot of feedback on updating the design. Perhaps I should move that up the priority list!

I would agree with that feedback. The actual visualization is one of the coolest things I've seen in a while, and it makes the UI's slightly less-than-cool design really stand out.

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Post by stunt » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 11:45 AM UTC

Good concept!

Very good that you've decided to go live without waiting for a fancy design for your front-end. Early feedback is more valuable for this product.

Nice job.

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Post by mapipedia » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 12:05 PM UTC

stunt wrote: post #24

Good concept! Very good that you've decided to go live without waiting for a fancy design for your front-end. Early feedback is more valuable for this product. Nice job.

Thanks! Yeah, I was keen to start getting some feedback sooner rather than later and I thought this was the perfect forum for it. I figured if it looked like no one was going to show any interest there might not be much point paying someone to tidy it up (although I suppose there's a bit of a chicken and egg situation there ... if it looked better more people might show an interest!). How did you find the performance in terms of load times and execution speed on your computer? Thanks again.

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Post by mapipedia » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 12:12 PM UTC

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Hi, thanks for your question. It kind of is. I would like to get to the point where I could change the maps over time to accurately represent things. However, there is some limited capacity to do it now through the use of region groups. So you can't change the regions themselves, but you can group them together. For example, you could model USSR as Russia and some of the Eastern European countries (I haven't created…

Thanks for the fast reply, the grouping option sounds like a good solution as a first step -- there might be instances where this is not applicable -- especially if you'r going further back in time [e.g. the principalities of the Holy Roman Empire were radically different to the german Bundesländer today]. Very cool project btw...

Yeah, I know what you mean. I would love to be able to show the actual boundaries changing over time. I've thought of a way to do that but don't have the data, but I think it wouldn't be too hard to do. Another idea I was thinking about was for the CSV data itself to help define the boundary. For example, if you wanted to track the amount of land that ISIS had over time, your CSV data could define which towns (or lat/lon) belonged to which group and then page could 'join the dots' to create the boundaries. Then the boundaries could be created arbitrarily. There would be some other complications that would need to be solved, but that's one of the ideas I've been thinking about.

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Post by mig4ng » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 12:12 PM UTC

Amazing concept. I am a very visual learner and I find this fascinating.

In school I often got disengaged by history because of the way it was taught, unfortunately. Projects like this can improve learning a lot!

The Average Life Expectancy one is 100% worth spending some minutes, even hours reading.

Keep the awesome work David.

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Post by Rabadonnn » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 12:24 PM UTC

Is doesnt look good on mobile

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Post by mapipedia » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 12:29 PM UTC

mig4ng wrote: post #27

Amazing concept. I am a very visual learner and I find this fascinating. In school I often got disengaged by history because of the way it was taught, unfortunately. Projects like this can improve learning a lot! The Average Life Expectancy one is 100% worth spending some minutes, even hours reading. Keep the awesome work David.

Thanks! I'm the same. Having something represented the right way visually can make a huge difference. The education sector is definitely one of my targets so it's great to get that feedback. I'm keen for people to create pages, upload data and to help to add more context to history. Hopefully the Mapipedia platform makes that easy for others to do.

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Post by mapipedia » Wed, Mar 13, 2019, 12:33 PM UTC

Rabadonnn wrote: post #28

Is doesnt look good on mobile

I have put some effort into mobile, but I have to admit I've struggled to get it to work well. The larger screens and use of a mouse means it works much better on laptop/desktops. Can you give me any further details about the parts of the mobile display that didn't work very well? Can you give me more details about the mobile you were you using (I've not had a chance to do a lot of testing on mobile devices)? Cheers