[Shake-dev] Re: A suggested improvement in the graphical ShakeMap interface

[Bruce Worden]

Hi Jack,

I'm not sure why Chris didn't see the stations on the intensity map.   
Do we need to make them darker?  An on-off switch would be a bit of  
work, and I'm not sure if it would be worth it, considering that the  
KML/Google Earth system provides that, and a lot more.  Have Chris  
take a look at:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/shakemap/sc/shake/14204720/ 
download/14204720.kml

using Google Earth and see if that better meets his needs.  It's a  
small event, but it shows all the same functionality.  We've got a  
bit more work to do with the KML, but once it's done, we (southern  
CA) will be rerunning a lot of older events to produce the KML and XML.

Bruce

	
On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:47 AM, Jack Boatwright wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I was at lunch yesterday with Chris Rojahn (an ex-USGS engineer at  
> ATC and
> a ShakeMap user & enthusiast).  He was dismayed by his inability to  
> see the
> stations on the intensity map, he has a seismologist's interest in  
> knowing
> how well constrained specific areas of intensity might be.  But Chris
> suggested an interesting solution: the addition of a button to the
> intensity maps that turned the station triangles on and off.  So  
> let me put
> an open question to the programmers: how feasible is such a  
> solution?  I
> think that it would help our collective job of checking the maps
> tremendously.
>
> 					take care,        Jack
>
> At 11:10 AM -0800 2/2/06, Peter Lombard wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Many of you have seen the announcement that ShakeMap 3.1 has been
>> released. One of the new features of this release is that it uses  
>> stations'
>> network code ("netid") for various things including assigning the  
>> map symbol
>> color. (In previous versions of ShakeMap, the station's "agency  
>> string"
>> (source in the XML) for assigining symbol colors.)
>>
>> I will be working on a modification to the Earthworm program  
>> shakemapfeed so
>> that it can produce XML with the network code in addition to all  
>> the other
>> fields. I'll make this new shakemapfeed available through the  
>> usual Earthworm
>> distribution system.
>>
>> Give me a few weeks for this; it shouldn't be a major code change,  
>> but I have
>> a few other things to do at the same time...
>>
>> [Earthworm shakemapfeed is one way of producing XML input data for
>> ShakeMap. It is not required for ShakeMap operation.]
>>
>> In the mean time, ShakeMap 3.1 should still work without the  
>> network code in
>> the input XML, for those who have installed it already. (Good work!)
>>
>> If you have questions or comments about Earthworm's shakemapfeed,  
>> let me
>> know. Please send questions about ShakeMap 3.1 to Bruce Worden
>> (cbworden at usgs.gov).
>>
>> --
>> Pete Lombard
>> Seismological Laboratory
>> 215 McCone Hall
>> University of California
>> Berkeley, CA 94720-4760
>>
>> lombard at seismo.berkeley.edu
>> (510) 642-0073
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