Map Of London

We are now following the name of a mythological character with the phrase "; mythological character" (note that we separate the character's name from the phrase with a semi-colon), which shows up on the Personography table.

Example: King Lud was thought by EM Londoners to be a historical person who founded London. For our purposes, Lud is more like a mythological character in the sense that he was a key figure in London's mythological past. The line between history and mythology is blurry in this period.

Note that we are not marking up references to Greek mythological figures. A reference to Persephone or Scylla and Charybdis would go unmarked.

Decision made by Janelle Jenstad and Dan Powell (RA)

This post should be categorized as House Rules. Get Stewart to make a new category for the Blog.

Whenever a new page is added, the page is supposed to show up under the author’s contributions. I assume there’s a bit of encoding in the style sheet that tells the browser to get all the pages by the person tagged as "docAuthor." This feature of the site works fine … except for the Topics pages.

Example: Sarah Mead-Willis contributed “Bethlehem Hospital” (under "Sites") and “Gossip and Gossips” (under “Topics”). If you click on her name on the “Credits” page, only the first contribution shows up. Likewise, if you click on her byline at the bottom of either of her pages, only “Bethlehem Hospital” shows up.

I don’t know if the style sheet that generates the “Contributions” pages (e.g., http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/contributions.php?id=MEAD1) needs to be fixed, or if something in the “Topics” page template needs to be fixed.

If you go to this page (for example), http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/render_page.php?id=TYBU1, and click on the link that is supposed to take you to the Guidelines for Contributors (http://mapoflondon.uvic.ca/guidelines_contributors.php) you go instead to a message about the page not being found: (http://lettuce.tapor.uvic.ca/~london/not_found.htm). It also happens from the blank St. Paul's page. What Tyburn and St. Paul’s have in common is that they have a different underlying file that generates the “There is currently no description of ….” page. That file includes the bit about a student project being available. (I remember someone setting this up for me -- maybe Mike). So that’s the place to start looking for a problem.

Assigned to MC:

MC will ask Stewart for the newest files for Map 3 (the Experimental Map) so that we can start working on them. JJ suggests that we save them to our lettuce server as we do with other files.

Assigned to MC:

MC will ask Stewart for the newest files for Map 3 (the Experimental Map) so that we can start working on them. JJ suggests that we save them to our lettuce server as we do with other files.

Sooner or later, the time will come to make the layered experimental map into the main platform for the site. At the moment, MC and JJ know how to update the experimental map (Map 3). Updates are not being made to Map 2 (the one based on the new scans from the Guildhall and that went live in August 2006), with the consequence that errors remain there for a long time even when we know of them. In addition, the site index seems to be generated from Map 2. So, for example, the "Smow Hill" error on the map shows up in the index. In sum, the experimental map is more up-to-date and more complete.

The following questions need to be taken up with Stewart:

• What do MC and JJ need to do for Map 3 to be ready? What corrections do we need to make? And what additions do we want to make? Some of these have been noted in this blog already.
• What needs to be done on the HCMC end for Map 3 to be integrated as the main platform of the site? Is it simply a matter of "flicking a switch" or will more complex changes have to be made? E.g., what about map coordinates in the "More Info" box? What happens to them? Can they be replaced directly with a "ping" to the spot?
• Once Map 3 is our platform, how often can we make corrections, additions, updates? Every time we have a correction to make? Once a month? Once a year? What is involved on the HCMC end to incorporate new data that we've drawn on the map?

Melanie and I have noticed a glitch on the experimental map. The Information box (produced by a map query) generates links to articles that take one to the articles describing the features in the selected area. However, the Feature Search generates a list of links that do not take one to the articles describing the features in the selected area.

This glitch will need to be addressed before we can consider making the experimental map our main platform for the site.

Ask Stewart to change the way that unordered lists are displayed. Let's take the bullets away altogether but maintain indentation. See Chruso-thriambos page as an example.

Need new categories for this blog:

• Wish List
• Design Issues
• Notes on Good Practice