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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=802010518-22022008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>I like the idea of transparency, Yahoo's as a somewhat
transparceny effect to it. We need a graphic artist that can help us put
the graphics together. I suck as a graphic artist :-) ...which is why I'm
hoping someone in our group is good at it. I have the original vector
graphics that I can supply someone if they want to try to mess around
with creating a new one.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Brian Fischer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Houston Engineering, Inc.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Maple Grove, MN</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>(763) 493-4522</FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Jay Kapalczynski
[mailto:jkapalczynski@ci.maple-grove.mn.us] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February
22, 2008 12:02 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Fischer, Brian;
geomoose-users@lists.sourceforge.net;
geomoose-developers@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Cc:</B> Matthew D. Syvertson;
Nutsch, Bob D.; Knippel, Randy; Jim.Dickerson@state.mn.us; David William
Bitner<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Geomoose-developers] GeoMOOSE Slider Navigation
control input<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">I
like the Red one….<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">one
thought….is there a way that we can make it more transparent until you roll over
it….<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">This
way its not obstructive to the map below….<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'">Just
a thought<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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geomoose-developers-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:geomoose-developers-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Fischer, Brian<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 22, 2008 11:54
AM<BR><B>To:</B> geomoose-users@lists.sourceforge.net;
geomoose-developers@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Cc:</B> Matthew D. Syvertson;
Nutsch, Bob D.; Knippel, Randy; Jim.Dickerson@state.mn.us; David William
Bitner<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Geomoose-developers] GeoMOOSE Slider Navigation
control input<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">GeoMOOSE
users,</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">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><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Currently we have 3
graphics we can use for the control:</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><A
href="http://demo.openmnnd.org/geomoose/statedemo.html?skin=blue">http://demo.openmnnd.org/geomoose/statedemo.html?skin=blue</A></SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><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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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"><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><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">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><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">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><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Thanks,</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Brian</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Brian
Fischer,</SPAN></B> <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">CFM</SPAN><o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">GIS Project
Manager<BR></SPAN><B><I><SPAN
style="COLOR: #005b45; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Houston Engineering,
Inc.</SPAN></I></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">|</SPAN> <SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #005b45; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Leave
Nothing to Chance<SUP>TM<BR></SUP></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">6901 East Fish Lake
Road, Suite 140<BR>Maple Grove, MN 55369<BR>Phone: 763.493.4522 /
Fax: 763.493.5572<BR>Email: </SPAN> <A
href="mailto:bfischer@houstonengineeringinc.com"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">bfischer@houstonengineeringinc.com</SPAN></A><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Website:</SPAN> <A
href="http://www.houstonengineeringinc.com/"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">www.houstonengineeringinc.com</SPAN></A>
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