Thanks Crispin and useful feedback. I'll forward your comments to the
GIS team who are working on a new render of the OS data so maybe they
can adjust the watermarking for that.
Because this is aimed at communities and especially to encourage them
to upload information and images we felt it was a nice touch to have the
Braikenridge layer and community layers as the defaults for the main
page. We will be adding deep links to the HER layer, Conservation Areas,
Listed Buildings etc from the relevant council web pages.
We need to rename the NE9 layer because this has been pulled straight
in from the Local Plan data. Most people with an interest in Bristol
know what it means but a better name and some metadata would help.
GIS are working on the loading of the thumbnails for the community
images because we were concerned about the load times especially as many
people are using pretty high res cameras these days.
All along I've told the GIS team that the javascript version was a
lower priority because I felt that given the choice most people would
use Silverlight. It was only pressure from our IT dept that made us do
the javascript version. This ate into the development time for the site
as a whole so I've always been very begrudging of that version. I will
let GIS know though because they are probably going to use that approach
for council mapping data as a whole.
Thank you again Crispin and I hope your friends here enjoy the site.
Best wishes,
Pete
Peter Insole
Archaeological Officer
Urban Design & Conservation
City Development
Brunel House
St George's Road
Bristol
BS1 5UY
tel 0117 9223033
www.bristol.gov.uk/knowyourplace
>>> Crispin Flower <[log in to unmask]> 17/03/2011 21:09 >>>
Hi Peter
Congratulations - great site, and both the Silverlight and JavaScript
versions worked well for me in IE8. I love the visible sellotape etc on
the historic maps ;-)
Who is the target audience (given the HER21 remit)… presumably public?
Constructive feedback...
· The watermarking is quite obtrusive; normally 10% considered
adequate (if any).
· HER monuments not switched on by default, while the
Braikenridge stuff is. Peculiar.
· "NE9 parks and gardens" layer... eh?
· Community content points (both of them!) load a massive image
when clicked, taking ages to appear – would be good to load a reduced
thumbnail initially.
· Javascript map (in particular) bounces around a lot when
click on a point – more than is required to make the popup appear on
screen.
Excellent, and it will be very interesting to see how the
community-generated content comes along. I’ll forward the address to
friends who live in Bristol.
Yours
Crispin
-----Original Message-----
From: Issues related to Historic Environment Records
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Pete Insole
Sent: 17 March 2011 13:01
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Know Your Place - Bristol's new HER website
Hello all,
Here in Bristol we have reached the end of our HER21 Bristol Historic
Web Map Project and launched the resulting new web resource at a public
event last night at Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery. Over 100 people
attended and the event is featured in our local paper today, see
http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/news/KNOW-PLACE/article-3342228-detail/article.html
The project has been a huge success that has resulted in an amazing
website that will continue to develop as we and communities continually
add more data. This latter point will have some cross over with the
ongoing Local List discussion on the forum.
I would very much like to thank English Heritage for enabling this
project to happen and I hope you all find the result of interest.
Please note that we have actually provided two websites, one that
requires the free Silverlight plug-in and a simpler javascript version
for people where browser plug-ins are blocked by over sensitive security
protocols.
The home page for the site has a typically uninspiring local authority
webpage at www.bristol.gov.uk/knowyourplace , but don't let that put you
off.
I look forward to hearing any comments you might have about it (the
maps not the home page).
Best wishes,
Pete Insole
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