Archive for November, 2007

Flex and Google Maps

29Nov07

We’ve tentatively chosen two applications to run our visualizations: Adobe Flex, which would handle netMap and chronoMap, and Google Maps, which would run geoMap (probably with a Flex overlay).
The choice for netMap and chronoMap was a tough one. There are few nice, open source tools out there, including prefuse, Simile Timeline, and Simile Exhibit. All [...]

drupal implementation

20Nov07

Phylo will run on drupal, an open source content management system (CMS). After a few months of development, we’ve realized the need for several things:

a robust tracking system that can record additions and changes, including user information and comments on why changes are being made,
a secure sign-in area for user information,
a search engine with advanced capabilities, [...]