<html><head><base href="x-msg://122/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The omission of M<1 earthquakes was an error on our part. We fixed that one immediately. If you take a look at the Beta maps now, you'll see all the M<1 earthquakes on them already.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/mapping/">http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/mapping/</a><br><div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>- <font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Handwriting - Dakota'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Lisa</span></font></div><div>------</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br><div><div>On Dec 3, 2010, at 12:45 PM, Michael Blanpied wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div>Lisa,</div><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><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><div><br></div><div>Thanks again,</div><div>Mike</div><div><br></div><div>At 10:49 AM -0700 12/3/10, Lisa A Wald wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">Everyone-</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">Thank you for your feedback, comments, and suggestions about the Next Generation Earthquake Maps for the EHP website.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">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><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">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><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">These are some of the tasks we're working on to address your concerns before the Public Beta is launched in January:</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">1. Remove clustering algorithm, or allow user to turn it on and off; add cluster symbol to map key.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">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="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">3. Implement full-page-size map.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">4. Add magnitude to hover text.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">5. Change labeling from "Event" to "Earthquake".</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">6. Add user guide for features that are not intuitively obvious.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">7. Use our own basemaps, cities, list, etc instead of the build-in data provided by Google Maps.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">8. Other small changes such as scale bar, lat/lon of mouse position.</blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">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><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">Thanks for helping to make this an outstanding product!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Verdana">- </font>Lisa<font face="Verdana"><br><font color="#008500">--------------------------<br>Lisa Wald, Geophysicist</font></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><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></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; ">--------------------------</blockquote><div><br></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br></div></div></body></html>