TODO.md

TODO:

• add random location button

• make extents work reliably (wheter coming from a browse, geohash or autocomplete mode)

  • UP: one level up (unless at planet scale)
  • DOWN: one level down (unless at city scale) country -> capital

• update URL hash, respond to URL hash updates

  • make html5 history work

• stop zooming out after a certain scale

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• add US news sources

  • don't translate news for english-speaking countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada*, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Ireland, Jamaica, New Zealand, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America,

• allow multi-phrase search in #geo searches (OR: remove extra phrases after the first comma)

country -> continent mapping: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/indexzero/11338529/raw/c0095d8943aea3a5751c21f8fa8a1fcd7a3bd6e7/continents.json

CIA fact book: https://github.com/waldenn/factbook.json

• world sea ports https://d2ad6b4ur7yvpq.cloudfront.net/naturalearth-3.3.0/ne_10m_admin_0_label_points.geojson https://github.com/marchah/sea-ports/blob/master/lib/ports.json https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mapbox/ios-sdk-examples/master/Examples/Files/ports.geojson

• BUG: set correct lat-lon for google-earth in coutry views

• indicate country-capitals (and US-state-capitals)

• implement button to re-align the North-South axis with the screen from any app state

• country data fixes / addons:

  • setup custom view-port for viewing Denmark, France, UK, ...
  • add missing countries (Kiribati, etc.)
  • fix bad country geometries (eg. Denmark Fyn)

• cleanup code structure

  • use a nodejs template
  • consider something like Svelte Sapper for a better application structure? https://sapper.svelte.technology/
  • rewrite the few jQuery uses in vanilla JS?

• better HTML templating system needed?

• more robust wikipedia-article checking algorithm:

  • options: [1] city [2] city, state [3] city, country
  • first check [1], as most city articles can be accessed in this way
    • if the place is within the US: check [2]
    • if no article is found or an ambiguation article is found: check [3]
      • if the place is within the US: show a search for [2]
      • else show a search for [3]

• add other types of data overlays:

  • lakes: http://geojson.io/#map=7/-3.058/31.333 (needs annotion: name, country codes)
  • http://geocommons.com/search.html
  • https://worldmap.harvard.edu/maps/search?sort=last_modified&dir=DESC
  • http://geojson.xyz/
  • violence: https://www.acleddata.com/data/

• how to allow the user to create simple queries over the DB:

  • ...

• smarter city menu

  • history of (if its a capital)
  • ...

To consider:

• Google Earth mouse-controls ??

• general keyboard navigation controls (show onscreen help for these)

  • ...
  • arrow-key movement

• specific keyboard navigation controls

• timeline slider concept: https://ourworldindata.org/slides/war-and-violence/#/11 https://www.jqueryscript.net/form/Draggable-Range-Selection-Plugin-JQDRangeSlider.html

  • possible timeline topics:
    • human conflict
      • http://nodegoat.net/blog.p/82.m/14/a-wikidatadbpedia-geography-of-violence link;label;date;date_formatted;lat;lon link;label;lat;lon;date
    • political regime types
      • https://ourworldindata.org/slides/war-and-violence/#/11
    • ecology: water (seas, rivers, groundwater), air (smog), land (waste management, deforestation, mining, ...)
    • inter-country trade
    • mining
    • expanding earth theory
    • out-of-india migration theory
    • spirituality / religions / tribes