Map plugin

• Reference name: GeoNamesMapPlugin
• Code Source: geonamesmapplugin.coffee
• Compiled Source: geonamesmapplugin.js

Features

• Generates Map widgets for concepts that refer to locations.

• It's expanded widget has a fixed dimension of 600px X 600px

• The expanded widget contains 3 tabs:

  • Map tab (green) creates a Google interactive map centered on the annotated geonames reference
  • Weather tab (yellow) enables a Weather.com weather forecast layer, fully interactive, on top of the previously mentioned map.
  • Rout tab (orange) creates a rout map from the current user location, with the user consent, to the annotated location

Dependencies

• LDPlugin, Google API

Web API connections

• This plugin reacts to annotations that contain in their resource fields Geonames API calls that point to the annotated location.
• The plugin processes this response, by extracting the location name, the latitude and longitude in decimal form.
• A Google Map API query string is being built with the extracted information.

Widgets

• Simple widget composed of: a button with a green map icon and the targeting location name.
• Expanded widget composed of: a video overlaying panel containing 3 tabs:
  • Map tab (green)
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  • Weather tab (yellow)
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  • Rout tab (orange)
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Events

• This plugin will attach the rendering logic of the widgets in the becomeActive event handler of each annotation that contains a Geonames call in it resource field.

Mouse interaction

• Each widget binds activate events to click events and will trigger a widget expansion
• Expanded widgets close when 'clicking' the close (X) icon at the top left hand side of the expanded widget
  • Map tab (green)
    • 'double click' - zooms in and centers the map on the clicked point
    • 'scroll up' and 'scroll down' - zoom in and out, respectively, on the current map center point
    • 'click and drag' - pans the map according to the drag direction
  • Weather tab (yellow)
    • all of the Map tab behaviors apply
    • 'click' on the weather icons will trigger and map overlay with the 4 day forecast (temperature in Celsius and precipitations)
  • Rout tab (orange)
    • all of the Map tab behaviors apply

Touch interaction

• Each widget binds activate events to tap events and will trigger a widget expansion
• Expanded widgets close when 'tapping' the close (X) icon at the top left hand side of the expanded widget
  • Map tab (green)
    • 'double tap' - zooms in and centers the map on the clicked point
    • 'pinch to zoom' - zoom in and out, respectively, on the current map center point
    • 'touch drag' - pans the map according to the drag direction
  • Weather tab (yellow)
    • all of the Map tab behaviors apply
    • 'tap' on the weather icons will trigger and map overlay with the 4 day forecast (temperature in Celsius and precipitations)
  • Rout tab (orange)
    • all of the Map tab behaviors apply

Google TV remote control interaction

• Each widget binds activate events to 'OK' events and will trigger a widget expansion
• Expanded widgets close when pressing the 'BACK' button
  • Map tab (green) selected by default
    • 'UP' and 'DOWN' arrow buttons - zoom in and out, respectively, on the current map center point
  • Weather tab (yellow)
    • all of the Map tab behaviors apply
  • Rout tab (orange)
    • all of the Map tab behaviors apply