people.emich.edu/jkeswick/IS449/project/project_final.html

people.emich.edu/jkeswick/IS449/project/routeform.html

There are still a couple of bugs to work out in integrating with the rest of the project, but it should be ready to go very soon.  This is the last of the major features I'm working on (since I got the date thing managed), so I'll work on the diagram(s) for the presentation as soon as that's done.

people.emich.edu/jkeswick/IS449/project/iteration3formatted.html

Here is the site for what I've done so far (if it doesn't load or does something funny, that probably means that I'm working on it some more)  people.emich.edu/jkeswick/IS449/project/iteration3.html

 ConcerQuest

It finds events, grabs the first 10 in the list, and generates a map for those ten.  Clicking the 'get more events' button will grab the next 10, and make a new map for those 10 events.  Once you reach the end of the list, the 'get more' button will restart the search automatically.  For some reason, simply going back to the beginning of the array doesn't work, so I set it up to redo the search.  There is a better way to do this, but I've not managed to make it work yet.  At any rate, we now have the events stored in an array, so we should be able to incorporate filtering by a specific date range, which is what I'm actually concentrating on now.

At the moment, there are a couple of popups.  The first one is showing the total number of events that the search has returned, and the second shows the index range of the events currently being showed on the map.  Both were for debugging purposes, and I'll get rid of them the next time I update the file.

Also note that the list at the bottom of the page shows all of the events, rather than just the ones currently being displayed on the map.  Once I've figured out how to do the filtering by date, I'll tackle the issue of making the list match up with the map.

I think that we can also separate venue locations and still have the popup balloons show all of the events at a venue.  This should expand the number of events we can show, as the map is currently treating each event as a separate map location.  I'm currently working on this, but don't have a protoype ready for viewing yet.

Lori's Blog Hey guys. Here is my blog post to the world that I may not be able to make it to class tonight. I had to make an emergency dental appointment late in the afternoon today to get a tooth pulled (ouch)! For future refrence, if a filling falls out, dont eat jawbreakers and crack your tooth into pieces! (Yeah it's sad that I managed to do that - what in the world was I thinking???) I will try my best to make it tonight, but since I most likely will have to get a surgical extraction of the tooth, I may not be in the best shape later. I just thought you would all love to know why I may miss class!

I've done something similar, but on nachos at the movies.  Its harder than you think to avoid chewing on a damaged tooth.  You might want to stock up on soft foods, cause you're not going to want to do any chewing for a few days.

I think its great that the WebFinancials group is doing something so different from the other groups.  It makes the project more difficult, but also makes it stand out.  Once you guys have figured out how to make your interface compatable with IE it'll be great.  Might it be possible to use an ActiveX object to make your request?

Todd's Blog I now have it coded so that all the events for a specific date are mapped. My code is still quite sloppy, and I hope to have to cleaned up tomorrow. http://people.emich.edu/tdavison/events.html

Excellent, it works like a charm.  Cleaning the code up is the easy part, getting soemthing that works is the tough bit.  I've been running into a lot more difficulty combining the two data sources on one page than I expected.  Still not quite sure what was, and is, causing that error message on my page loads, but I think its the main culprit in my difficulties.  I think that perhapse it has something to do with deciding when to use single quotes and when to use double, or perhapse I need to include a class='xxx' statement for my map div.  At any rate, your work here looks excellent, and I think it will be a great foundation from which to build our applications.  Way to go!

Todd's Blog I registered for the EVDB API. There are a ton of methods available, which is a good thing. I just have to figure out in what way we want to use them. This is going to be challenging. Hopefully by tomorrow I'll have made some significant progress. http://api.evdb.com/

I've registered too, and done some experimenting with some of the methods.  I must say that EVDB's API is not as intuitive as mapQuests, but I think I've got it straight now.  I can see how we can combine the two, but we need to discuss exactly what information we are going to be interested in, and how we want to make that info accessible to site viewers.

Todd's Blog I registered with mapquest and received the key. After reviewing the API and examining some sample code I was able to display a map. It can be seen at http://people.emich.edu/tdavison/test.html.

I've been working on this a bit too, and have figured out how to get a map that will display multiple addresses.  At the moment, my version of this takes input from users to locate each new address, and the map automatically adjusts to try and fit allof the locations in one screen.  It starts with a default location of the city of Ann Arbor.  It should be fairly easy to asign each location its own icon, should we decide to do that, and I was going to work on rollover popups next (that's where placing the mouse over one of the marked locations creates a small popup of infomation about the location).  I've not had a chance yet to look at data source api's, so I'm not sure about the format of the data we'll be calling on, but I'm confident we'll be able to get the locations mapped once we have them.

My current version of the map feature can be viewed here:  Map of Ann Arbor