How to use this tool
The time line tool can be used to plot points on a map which will get highlighted as the slider
bar moves to the corresponding year.
For Example: When we consider Olympic host cities. Olympics started in the year 1896 and
latest year that Olympics was hosted was in 2012.Olympics occur every 4 years.
So the start year is 1896
End Year is 2012
Interval is 4
Input Screen 1
Enter the start year of the event
Enter end year of the event
Select the base map.
Enter the interval value(Interval is the number of years gap that appears in the slider bar)
Example :Olympics is a event that started in the year 1896
and its end/latest year of occurrence is 2012.The event occurs in an interval time of 4 years
Interval :
Slider Bar
4 years interval
Input Screen 2 :
Enter the Latitude, Longitude of the City/Event
Enter the City/Event name
Year in which the City/Event occurred.
These 4 fields are required fields
Then enter the Wiki Link, the YouTube link of the City/Events and Image associated with the event these fields are optional.
The image formats that are supported are :
if the jre version is 1.3 - JPEG,PNG,GIF
iF JRE IS 1.5 or higheer then it supports JPG,PNG,BMP,GIF
Example :
The first city that hosted Olympics is Athens
Its Latitude is 37.98
Longitude is 23.73
City is Athens
The latitude and longitude of a place can be found using any search engine by querying the search
engine as "Place name " latitude and longitude.Example :San diego latitude and longitude which will give
us a result as 32.71°
N, 117.16° W
then enter these coordinates as 32.71, -117.16
Similarly :
Latitude and longitude of melbourne australia are
37.81,144.96.
37.81° S, 144.96° E and should be entered as -
Latitude and longitude of Tokyo,Japan are 35.6895° N, 139.6917° E and should
be entered as 35.68,139.69.
So any coordinate that has "S" or "W" should be entered with a negative sign (-) instead of the
direction.
Output screen:
Once we click on the critical point we can see the corresponding dialog window. This window consists of
the data that the user has entered about the critical point
Image
Description
Youtube link
Wiki Link