Comments on: GeoCommons Maker! launches http://highearthorbit.com/geocommons-maker-launches/ Transmitting ideas, observations, and images from 42,000 km. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:16:11 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9-rare hourly 1 By: Andrew http://highearthorbit.com/geocommons-maker-launches/comment-page-1/#comment-215855 Andrew Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:32:08 +0000 http://highearthorbit.com/geocommons-maker-launches/#comment-215855 Hi Steve - thanks for the feedback, it's very appreciated. Regarding the bug with the reversed layer order. That's fixed and will be up on GeoCommons public site *very* soon. The Bi-polar divergent scheme for point geometries is a little farther out - but we've run into the same issues in making our own maps. Our solution has been the same - create two layers - but that's not ideal. We're working on a slew of new visualizations that will address this. We also have a public forum at http://getsatisfaction.com/geocommons if you have thoughts or ideas! Hi Steve – thanks for the feedback, it’s very appreciated.

Regarding the bug with the reversed layer order. That’s fixed and will be up on GeoCommons public site *very* soon.

The Bi-polar divergent scheme for point geometries is a little farther out – but we’ve run into the same issues in making our own maps. Our solution has been the same – create two layers – but that’s not ideal. We’re working on a slew of new visualizations that will address this.

We also have a public forum at http://getsatisfaction.com/geocommons if you have thoughts or ideas!

]]> By: Steve Chilton http://highearthorbit.com/geocommons-maker-launches/comment-page-1/#comment-215842 Steve Chilton Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:06:27 +0000 http://highearthorbit.com/geocommons-maker-launches/#comment-215842 Andrew, I did a lightning review for the Society of Cartographers Newsletter (http://www.soc.org.uk/newslett.htm#latestNewsletter) and have a couple of supplementary comments below. If there are any inaccuracies feel free to comment as it may be carried in expanded version in the SoC Bulletin. In a map produced subsequently I wanted to show a bi-polar colour scale for values above and below zero (ie + and -) for point symbols but couldn't seem to do that. It would be really useful to have that option. I ended up putting the data on two layers, instead of combining them into a new scale from 5 to -5. Secondly, when I saved the map for public showing it reversed the order of the two layers I had set up, so that the graphic effect wasn't exactly as I had wished. The relevant map is at: http://maker.geocommons.com/maps/1793 STEVE Andrew,
I did a lightning review for the Society of Cartographers Newsletter (http://www.soc.org.uk/newslett.htm#latestNewsletter) and have a couple of supplementary comments below. If there are any inaccuracies feel free to comment as it may be carried in expanded version in the SoC Bulletin.
In a map produced subsequently I wanted to show a bi-polar colour scale for values above and below zero (ie + and -) for point symbols but couldn’t seem to do that. It would be really useful to have that option. I ended up putting the data on two layers, instead of combining them into a new scale from 5 to -5.
Secondly, when I saved the map for public showing it reversed the order of the two layers I had set up, so that the graphic effect wasn’t exactly as I had wished.
The relevant map is at:
http://maker.geocommons.com/maps/1793

STEVE

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