Hi
<http://www.apennypermile.com>
I've long wrestled with finding appropriate visual ways to represent date
and location metadata that is intended to be imprecise - for example
representing 'taken some time in 1944' or where something is geotagged at
coordinates representing just a town or city. The danger is that even if
there is some sort of measure of precision or 'granularity' recorded
alongside these (which is what Flickr does quite nicely) the underlying
metadata is typically still stored as an accurate date (e.g. 01/01/1944
00:00) or at a particular geographic location such as 51.511214,-0.119824
(which Google at least considers the coordinates for London, but could be
misconstrued as being the Starbucks on the Strand!).
On maps I'm guessing you could use different pin styles. I'm not so sure on
timelines. Anyone got any good examples that handle either of these well?
Thanks, James
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