Landon Key posted this on 10.08.2008 at 04:30 PM with a worthy factor of 7
Landon Key posted this comment on 10.08.2008 at 04:32 PM
This is exactly what I have been looking for to make a cool relational network graph that is not only large in size but also very easy to navigate!
keyj63 posted this comment on 10.08.2008 at 04:48 PM
Zoomify is a paid product which allows you to easily display very large images on the web using flash and html. It is not free but it is worth a look if you are interested in displaying very large images.
jarmoore posted this comment on 10.08.2008 at 05:03 PM
Wow, this is awesome. What kind of interactions are allowed if you use it? (expanding nodes, etc.)
landon.key posted this comment on 10.08.2008 at 09:34 PM
J, I don't think it has those type of interactions it is basically a way to display very large images in a manageable way. Google just acts like an image display window that is smart enough to know what images to show at what level of zoom.
One thing that i do think could be done on the image creation side is to create expanded nodes at different intervals of zoom. For instance at the top most level of zoom you would see only the basics but as you zoom in on nodes you could then display more detail and with each zoom you could continue to display more and more detail.
Most of the work would be done on the image generation side which would be upfront work for any data needing to be displayed. Once the initial image was generated it could then be run through this and chopped then passed into the google map to be displayed.
landon.key posted this comment on 10.08.2008 at 10:23 PM
OK, I have been researching around a little bit and hacking at this tool. I think I am going to use what I have learned to create my own custom web-service that will allow users to upload images (very large) and in return get a custom URL to a widget that will display that image using the google map flash api.
If I am able to achieve this it will be very useful for those looking to display large data sets on the web.
landon.key posted this comment on 10.09.2008 at 08:05 AM
Oh, my! With a little more research I have learned of Deep Zoom a part of Microsoft's Silverlight 2 Beta. This is very very cool, not to mention out of the box!
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