“Login” has become a necessary prerequisite for being able to Place and Edit pins (hopefully, only temporarily though)
- RealNames are not necessary, but the registration process does require an email address, to which a confirmation message is sent. DfxMapUsers is a WiP that will explain this further.
The top “command line” of the DfxMapping.Frame includes four hyperlink “controls” …
- (1) “Register” - a free registration is needed to access advanced functions, while respecting Privacy rights.
- (2) “Edit Pins” - a ‘toggle’ between Display & Edit modes. Note: The displayed value is the Alternate mode, not the currently Active mode.
- (3) “Get Pins as XML” - for Registered users only.
- (4) “Link to this Page” - a pop up with current state values for ‘Lat’, ‘Lng’, …
The Home.Page display for this system has two ‘panes’; the map pane on the leftHandSide, and the location pane on the rightHandSide.
- The Map pane provides a Zoom control for “altitude” as well as links that select one of the ‘map’, ‘satellite’, or ‘hybrid’ views.
- The Location pane displays a list of (some of the very many) Pins that are available.
After unintentinally opening a Pin’s Edit mode, use the Pin name in the Location pane as a helpful way of closing the Edit boxes.
subSystem ‘help’ … AdaHelp, …
Some additional preliminary notes documenting some of the '''DfxMappingFeatures'''
Notes that have accumulated as this early stage of user testing continues, include ….
- The DfxMapping system allows pin placement by both Public and Registered Users
- An unlimited number of pins can co-exist on any point on the map.
- The rightSidePane is helpful in selecting a particular Pin within a Tag group if several are cluster close together, or are co-incident.
- Special function pins can be created to perform particular tasks such as ‘panning’ to a new location, at a new Zoom level. This may be used to …
- Create Old.Address - New.Address pairs
- Create a ‘route’ from Pin to pin.
- Control other dimensional overlays such as (virtual Space (e.g. ‘net or telco domains))Time, Name, …
- The ‘help’ tag can be added to any pin to create a link to this page.
- this tagName can be extended to provide help for smaller (more specific contexts).
- Information from this list will be removed to DfxMappingFunctions and DfxMappingFeatures?.
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- This N:Help link is a start at InterLinking this bliki and the first of the mapping applications.
- The excellent Cw:OddWiki Date support provided by the http://www.oddmuse.org Calendar functions makes this the strongest contender for linking Time domain items with mapping’s Space domain items.
- PinDemos
See - DfxMappingFunctions for a description of the currently supported capabilities. ; …
DfxMappingToDo …
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