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<div>Lisa,</div>
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<div>Thanks very much for the feedback and summary! It's great to know
that you're making progress on the new maps, and that you've found a
suitable way around the Google impediments.</div>
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<div>One point that I don't see on your list is the question of M<1
earthquakes. Our colleagues with interests in central California and
in volcanic areas are very keen to see the magnitude floor removed
from the maps. This has been brought to my attention a couple of times
now, so I'd appreciate hearing the status of that issue so that I'll
know how to respond next time it comes up.</div>
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<div>Thanks again,</div>
<div>Mike</div>
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<div>At 10:49 AM -0700 12/3/10, Lisa A Wald wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Everyone-</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Thank you for your feedback, comments,
and suggestions about the Next Generation Earthquake Maps for the EHP
website.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>The Web Team has compiled the various
comments, weighted them according to how many times we received the
same comment, and we are currently addressing all the comments
starting with those with the highest priority.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Because of Google licensing issues with
our high web traffic to the EQ Maps, we are having to move to another
client-side software, OpenLayers API. I think you'll agree that
OpenLayers is every bit as good, if not better, than Google Maps (and
it doesn't preclude us from using Google Maps API in the future if the
licensing issue is resolved).</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>These are some of the tasks we're working
on to address your concerns before the Public Beta is launched in
January:</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>1. Remove clustering algorithm, or allow
user to turn it on and off; add cluster symbol to map
key.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>2. Add links to event pages from event
table below map; turn off dbl-click on event symbol on
map.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>3. Implement full-page-size
map.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>4. Add magnitude to hover
text.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>5. Change labeling from "Event"
to "Earthquake".</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>6. Add user guide for features that are
not intuitively obvious.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>7. Use our own basemaps, cities, list,
etc instead of the build-in data provided by Google Maps.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>8. Other small changes such as scale bar,
lat/lon of mouse position.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Additional features, such as faults with
mouse-over info, volcano locations, caldera boundaries, etc. will be
added in the future, potentially before the final public release.
We'll have a mechanism in place to receive comments on the next
beta version too.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Thanks for helping to make this an
outstanding product!<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Verdana">- </font>Lisa<font face="Verdana"><br>
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Lisa Wald, Geophysicist</font></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Verdana" color="#008500">Web
Team Manager/Project Manager<br>
USGS Earthquake Hazards Program<br>
Golden, CO<br>
303-273-8543<br>
</font><a href="mailto:lisa@usgs.gov"><font face="Verdana"
color="#008500">lisa@usgs.gov</font></a><br>
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