New GiS for History site

[Ben Loh]

At 1:26 p -0500 9/12/06, P Kishor wrote:
>still not working well. Earlier, I gave up after about
>"Loading...300...", but this time, even though the first screen is
>quick, clicking the zoom button locked me into "Loading...199.207"
>
>Looks nice, if it works... quick. My suggestion would be to work on
>speed quite a bit, especially given you say --


Thanks, Puneet.  I'm curious where you're located.  Are you in 
Madison?  We definitely have not optimized our connection yet, but at 
least in the midwest US and western US, I've generally been able to 
get responses around 3 seconds or less.  On the other hand, we also 
occasionally get really long hangs.  I think it's because mapserver 
is taking so long to generate the overly complex maps, but this is 
our next big challenge.


>"> >>* We're using AJAX to try to minimize bandwidth issues, as many
>>  >>schools have a narrow pipe.
>
>One more thing, I wasn't even sure where to begin once I went to
>gisforhistory.org. After poking around a bit, I gave up, came back to
>your email, and found the direct link to the maps. Make the direct
>link, well, more direct.

Yeah, good point.  The idea with the site is to introduce it to 
teachers first via teacher workshops, so they'd have some kind of 
overview first.

Thanks again,

Ben


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