[Campaigns-l] Congressional Navigation/GUI

[Chad Lupkes]

Great concept page!

Couple of comments.  Your data is a few years old, and it doesn't work in
IE6, only Firefox.  Not sure why.  And the further we zoom out, the less
accurate the borders are.

Looks like the GoogleMaps extension is not installed on Wikia, yet.

Chad


On 8/6/06, Darrell Silver <darrell at darrellsilver.com> wrote:
>
> I've written a beta navigation and I'd love some feedback, especially
> in how it could be improved, integrated and moved to
> campaigns.wikia.  In its current state, I've overlayed congressional
> district data on google maps, where clicking on a district shows the
> current representative.
>
> I'd like to integrate this into wikia, linking from the map data to
> the appropriate entries for that person.  Initially, I was inspired
> by someone's idea here of showing the incumbent and his/her
> challenger, linking to their bios, quotes, issue positions, etc.
>
> The site is currently hosted at
>
> http://campaigns.darrellsilver.com/
>
> I'd like to move it into the wikia site, if possible. Any feedback /
> advice is much appreciated.
>
> Currently, there are a few limitations:
> - no Senate coverage
> - misalignment of the map at high zoom levels.
> - The default view is NYC, b/c that's where I am.  Obviously just
> arbitrary.
>
>
> TIA,
>
> Darrell Silver
>
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