THE PROJECT
Project Guide
About Project
Working Notes/Blog
Convert Census Files to SVG Maps
DEVELOPMENT ZONE
Utility Goals & Downloads
Cancer Alley
U.S Poverty: 1999
Census Tract Animation
SVG
Download SVG Viewer
SVG Collaboration
SVG on the Web
Download Directly
Conversion Utility 4/1/03
Utility code 4/1/03
Cancer Alley JavaScript 7/11/02
US Poverty JavaScript 1/1/03
Source Code Downloads for
1) CitizenMapmaker.exe and
2) UTM2SVG.exe
1) CitizenMapmaker.exe and
2) UTM2SVG.exe
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Visual Basic developers: click here to download
the source code for the CitizenMapmaker utility.
Click here to download the CitizenMapmaker utility executable (4/1/03; beta version 0.2) |
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We issue an open invitation to Visual Basic developers to help build
this utility. Mal Winslett has been taking the lead in developing and pursuing
the Utility Development Goals listed below.
He has posted these Goals, the code and additional thoughts
on the project on his website.
If you'd like to chip in and partake in development communications you may contact either Mal at malwinsc@yahoo.com or Mike McCullough at mm@CitizenComputing.org |
| CitizenMapmaker Uiltity Development Goals | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| current | Determine what are the recommended practices regards javascript and SVG coding style. Debate of style="fill:blue;..." versus fill="blue" is first up. | 0001 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Done | Error handling code for input boxes. Currently it will crash if there is no file selected for input or output. Improve error handling overall. | 0002 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Done | Automatically set the ID attribute of the main | 0003 |
Done
| Determine the file type from the filename. Step through each of the
types in subsquent vers until all Census files are readable to incorporate
the attribute data with the layer.
| 0004 |
Done
| Include an option to set the id based on parsing the filename. Would
require the state codes or Federal code and the list of all types of
files. Present in current current code, need to clarify
which elements.
| 0005 |
Done
| Allow for the setting of display characteristics for each layer. Line
thickness, color, type of line etc. (Helps with the multi layer goal).
Improvements will be added per item (opacity and color
picker).
| 0006 |
Done
| Show some visual display of progress or activity while the conversion
is taking place -- maybe a line or two of the new code flashing by or a
simple progress bar. Complete, needs improving though on
output and scrolling.
| 0007 |
current
| Give the option to set a margin for the entire SVG file. Background
color font used.
| 0008 |
Done
| FIPS code lookup. May add a lookup utility to the
codebase off of this. Good because it will further abstract the sub
routine.
| 0009 |
current
| Allow the use of labels from the attribute field file. Configurable.
And still allows a different field to be used for the id.
| 0010 |
>Done
| Ability to convert multi layers. Present but will
require tweaks based on DAT parsing routine and small adjusetments
(reusing layer information and resetting).
| 0011 |
TBD
| Add UTM2SVG conversion routine. Opted to push file
format conversions for Citizen MapMaker back currently. Focusing on DAT
Files and the process.
| 0012 |
TBD
| Add mouseevents and allow the user to define which element_id will
display onhover. Allow the user to define if the mouseover results in a
popup style display or if it pushes the data elsewhere for use
| 0013 |
Current
| Allow the insert of SVG code before and after each element is
produced. Allow for the insert of javascript code to specific elements.
. Moved this to current, should be simple to add. Hard
part will be coming up with snippets for easy insertion.
| 0014 |
TBD
| Give the option to see a list of all elements in file before the SVG
is generated; optionally allowing specific elements to be edited.
| 0015 |
TBD
| Include an OLE SVG Viewer that allows for previews
| 0016 |
TBD
| include some legend symbols or artwork (compass rose) Will require
that the elements be placed so the OLE SVG Viewer may or may not work.
Will require the ability to locate mouse position and insert code for its
placement.
| 0017 |
TBD
| Most recently used directories/files.
| 0018 |
TBD
| Directory locking for output and input.
| 0019 |
TBD
| RDF for information about districts etc.
| 0020 |
TBD
| Ability to export data in CSV format (mainly the attribute files).
| 0021 |
TBD
| Import and convert SHP/DBF/SHX files
| 0022 |
Debatable
| Import SVG and parse for editing. This will require a rudimentary XML
parser as well as a SVG Parser.
| 0023 |
Debatable
| SVG Node editor. This would be a simple node editor to allow for
editing attributes without loading all the data, skipping primarily the
long/lat coordinates.
| 0024 |
Debatable
| Batch conversion.
| 0025 |
Debatable
| Ability to add basic shapes(rect,line, etc.) to generated maps.
| 0026 |
Debatable
| Create a framework allowing for file conversion plugins. Would allow
developers to use VB5 CCE (free edition) to create .dll plugins.
| 0027 | |
Sample UTM boundary file (Year 2000 Denver Census tracts)
One goal for the CitizenMapmaker Utility is to incorporate other format conversions like UTM and MIF (MapInfo Format).