Hi all
I'm working on IWM's UK War Memorials Register project -
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/search - to help deliver location based
search and map display. There are over 74,000 memorials in the database and
most have a current location stored as latlon. Currently locations are
displayed on individual records - e.g. half way down
https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/104 - but there is no
facility to either display a map of search results, nor to search within a
specific area (other than to use existing textual facet filters such as
town or county, for which the data is somewhat lacking.
What I am after is:
- examples displaying maps of cultural heritage content (obviously the ones
that people really like, but also possibly dislike, and reasons why)
- examples perhaps even from the commercial sector of sites that people
think have great location based searching (I'm thinking even the likes of
Zoopla, Airbnb,
- any 'best practice' front- and back-end technical solutions that people
might be aware of for displaying large numbers of locations, including
multiple items at one point; for reference, the data is delivered via a
Solr endpoint and into a Drupal hosted site using Solarium - these could
potentially be configured/optimised in any way needed
- any suggestions for sharing data e.g. to OpenStreetMap and Wikidata
(together with the evidence I'm going to need to justify this!)
- recommendations for any experts out there who have handled the
development of similar features!
I would also like to hear from anyone with existing online maps about their
experiences, including any metrics or user testing insight about what users
do or don't use (empirical or anecdotal). This could include features like
location name/postcode search, tools for drawing search areas, selecting
base map / data layers, zooming/panning, opening pop-ups etc
Thanks, James
PS for something to shoot at, here are a few random cultural sector things
I dredged out of my memory banks (shared without comment):
https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/map-search
https://britainfromabove.org.uk/en/map?country=global&view=map#1,336645,222987
https://www.historypin.org/en/explore/geo/51.467364,-0.1043,12/bounds/51.40337,-0.315444,51.531268,0.106843/sort/popular/paging/1/state/map
https://artsandculture.google.com/nearby
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James Morley
Projects: www.catchingtherain.com
Twitter: @jamesinealing <https://twitter.com/jamesinealing> /
@PhotosOfThePast <https://twitter.com/photosofthepast>
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