On 3/3/11 3:14 PM, Daniel Schwen wrote: >> Hey there. As part of our efforts to make uploading better, I spec'ed >> out a Geolocation widget. It will probably first appear in UploadWizard > > This will be useful if you > a) point out that the location of teh camera should be specified!
Yeah, I'm thinking of just doing that in the label -- "Camera location: <widget here>". > b) add direction/heading support My view is to try for the simplest thing that could possibly work, for a 1.0. That could be the next feature we add. I left it out because everything about this widget seems like a no-brainer except for how to add direction & heading in a usable manner. Personally I don't see an obviously great way. We could use ctrl-clicks and a line drawing like the Geolocator tool does, but then we have to have more instructions. That's also only possible in non-IE browsers, AFAIK, unless he has a VML fallback. We could have some icon which turned on a "direction" mode, but where does the icon go & what does it look like & what does the interface look like? Personally I imagine a kind of "lighthouse beam" where we darken everything that's outside the camera field of view, and have a pair of buttons to rotate the "lighthouse beam" clockwise & counterclockwise. But then there have to be ways to get out of "lighthouse" mode if you want to move the map again. We could guess at the angle of the "lighthouse beam" from typical lenses, but what about panoramas? What about 360 views? You see that this rapidly gets kind of hard, and definitely hard to support in all our target browsers. Anyway if you see easy answers to all this, please post them here... -- Neil Kandalgaonkar <ne...@wikimedia.org> _______________________________________________ Commons-l mailing list Commons-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/commons-l
