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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I like the scale bar that is in the red
scheme, and think it would be good to go with grayscale (instead of the blue
color) and the preset scales.</span></font></p>
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sluggish today. Not sure if it just has to do with everyone testing it???</span></font></p>
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color:black'>Richland</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> County GIS</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
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</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Wahpeton</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:8.0pt;color:navy'>Voice: 701-642-7860 Fax: 701-642-7746</span></font><font size=1 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Fischer, Brian
[mailto:bfischer@houstonengineeringinc.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, February 22, 2008
11:54 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b>
geomoose-users@lists.sourceforge.net; geomoose-developers@lists.sourceforge.net<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> David William Bitner;
Jim.Dickerson@state.mn.us; Knippel, Randy; Nutsch, Bob D.; Matthew D. Syvertson<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> GeoMOOSE Slider
Navigation control input</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>GeoMOOSE users,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Dan and I have been talking about how to fix some of the
challenges the navigation slider control has been giving us. While this
thing looks like it might be simple, it is causing us a lot of pain because of
the variation in the 3 different color scheme graphics. We are looking
for some input here on how to revise the control.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Currently we have 3 graphics we can use for the control:</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><a href="http://demo.openmnnd.org/geomoose/statedemo.html?skin=blue">http://demo.openmnnd.org/geomoose/statedemo.html?skin=blue</a></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><a href="http://demo.openmnnd.org/geomoose/statedemo.html?skin=green">http://demo.openmnnd.org/geomoose/statedemo.html?skin=green</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><a href="http://demo.openmnnd.org/geomoose/statedemo.html?skin=red">http://demo.openmnnd.org/geomoose/statedemo.html?skin=red</a>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>This causes problems because they are all positioned on the
screen different and have different graphics that make up the control. It
takes a lot of javascript and CSS code to support doing this well for 3
seperate graphics. What we are proposing to do is migrate this to one
look that will work for any color scheme. Our initial thoughts would be
to take the blue one and convert it to grey scale. Then add some cool
mouseover effects to the control. Then change the way it behaves.
For example each tick on the slider would be set to a map scale defined by the
developer in the configuration.js file. That way it is simplier code to
deal with. Then a user can slide the zoom bar and it would snap to a tic
and zoom the map to that defined scale. Do users think this would work
for them?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The other input we are looking for is if someone
would want to contribute a new graphics for the slider control or has ideas for
a new one. There are a lot of other nice ones out there but the graphics
are not open for us to use and distribute (i.e. google, yahoo, microsoft,
mapquest, etc...). One that I saw that I like is <a href="http://beta.whereis.com/index.htm">http://beta.whereis.com/index.htm</a>,
but once again the graphics are not available for us to use. The only
other open one we could use is the one used in OpenLayers (<a href="http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/controls.html">http://www.openlayers.org/dev/examples/controls.html</a>). If
anyone has a good graphic arts background maybe they could create one for us to
use. Looking for some input here. Hopefully it all makes sense?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks,</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Brian</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face=Arial><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Brian Fischer,</span></font></b> <font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>CFM</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>GIS Project Manager<br>
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