Frontend discussion 20150626
The UCB and Stamen teams met on Friday, June 26, and started planning out the frontend application for Open Reblock, highlighting some remaining backend tasks along the way.
We decided to include the submission form along with a gallery of recent reblocked areas on the home page:
The user will need to provide a shapefile and then include a name for the place. (We chose this rather than geocoding the location because many files lack projections and, more importantly, people will often have their own local names for places that a global geocoder is unlikely to match.)
Since users will have to log in to use the submission form, we sketched out this flow for after a user loads a shapefile and hits submit on the home page:
Once the file is submitted and the user is logged in, the progress of their file will be shown on the same page where that file will appear in the future. We should come up with a name for this type of page. Here's a very rough sketch:
The slider along the bottom of the map will serve as a progress bar while the file is being processed, and the map itself will show the intermediate steps produced by the topology algorithm. Once the process is complete, you'll be able to scrub through the intermediary steps using the slider, all the way from the unprocessed file to the final result.
Those steps will be saved in the URL so that each step can be shared:
