Map (activity)
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Map
The Map activity allows children to create geo-tagged media mashups. Children can place images, videos, and audio recordings onto maps of their communities.
Tutorial
Getting Started
When you launch the Map activity, sugar will attempt to reach a remote map server.
If you don't have a good internet connection, you might not be able to get past this screen.
When you've connected to the map server, you will be able to browse maps of the world. The current implementation uses Google Maps. Other map servers could also be implemented.
You can navigate the map using the compass arrows on the sides of the map. You can zoom in and out using the + and - buttons. Enter a location into the Address bar to jump to a new part of the world.
Adding Media
To add media from your journal onto the map, click on the Add Media button.
This will open a file chooser dialog. You can only select images and and video files to add to the map, so you might want to filter the list.
Your mouse will become a crosshair, and where you click next will be selected as the location of your photo or video.
Media will be represented on the map by the colors of the xo which recorded the media.
Browsing Media
If there are multiple media within one region of the map, you can click the 
and 
buttons in the map region to cycle through them. If you want to see the pop-up with a higher-quality image or watch the video, click 
.
Visualizing Density
As you add more media to your map, you can click on the Density button to get an overview of where media is clustered.
Searching for Tagged Journal Media
If you tag your photos and videos in the journal as shown below:
If you've tagged your photos and videos in the journal, then you can filter on those tags in the Map activity!
Saving Maps
You can save a map by clicking the star button. Saved maps are added to the tray at the bottom of the activity. If you click a map button, the map will be returned to the location, zoom level, and tags when the map was saved.
You can copy an image of this map state to the clipboard if you want to use it in other activities, like write or paint.
You can also describe this map as seen in the next screenshot:
How to Install
Download this .xo file using the Browse activity: Map-2.xo
Development
The Map activity was written in PyGTK. It relies on javascript files (including prototype.js) to interface with Google maps, although any map rendering engine could be substituted.
All of the Map activity's code is under an MIT License.
Feature requests
Add your feature requests here!
- Satellite & Terrain views from Google Maps would be a big addition! Google's street maps currently only cover a small fraction of the world. wade 19:46, 15 May 2008 (EDT)
- The ability to read layers (like photos and wikipedia articles) from Google Earth would be amazing! wade 19:46, 15 May 2008
- The availability of the map server locally (so that the users don't have to use the internet) User:Aakash
Activity Summary
| Icon: | Sugar icon::Image:activity-map.svg |
| Genre: | Activity genre::General Search and Discovery |
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| Short description: | Short description::The Map activity allows children to create geo-tagged media mashups. Children can place images, videos, and audio recordings onto maps of their communities. |
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| Repository URL: | Source code::http://mediamods.com/sugar/Map-2.tar.bz2 |
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| URL from which to download the latest .xo bundle | Activity bundle::http://maptonomy.appspot.com/Map-3b.xo |
| Last tested version number: | Activity version::2 |
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| Development status: | Devel status::4. Beta |
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