earthviewer/bible-atlas

Geography, civilizations and cartography of the Holy Land on a 3D virtual globe.

bible-atlas's Issues

Add Info button to NavBar

Add an Info button (?) to the NavBar that opens a dialog with attributions and links.

• Credit http://www.openbible.info/geo/

Add an overview window to the globe

• Consider a second (small) globe in lieu of a compass.

• Consider the mercator overview used in WorldWind Java.

Add the bible.viewer.earth custom domain

Add a custom domain for https://emxsys.github.io/bible-atlas/

• Add custom domain to repo settings
• Configure DNS

Add place name heat map

Add heat map layers for the Old Testament and New Testament place names.

See: NASAWorldWind/WebWorldWind#628

Implement Travis-CI for continuous integration

Use Travis-CI to deploy to GitHub pages from the master branch.

Add book KML from openbible.info

Closes #2

Create a layer for each KML file.

Document source data

Update the README.md

• Bible GeoCoding https://www.openbible.info/geo/

• The Map Icons Collection https://mapicons.mapsmarker.com/

• Biblical Studies and Technology Tools https://bibleandtech.blogspot.com/2013/09/google-earth-exercise-for-biblical.html

Set the favicon

Change the favicon from Nasa to a cross.

Add books of the Bible

Mobile menu should close after selecting item

Use the Map Icons Collection for placemarks

Use icons from the Map Icons Collection for the KML placemarks.

Consider placemark attributes for the following:

• Places mentioned in a book, e.g., Jesus of Galilee, Paul from Tarsus
• Places traveled to in a book, e.g., places along Paul's missionary journey(s)

Suffixes:

  "Root" means the location that's used for the Latitude and Longitude. 
  ">" means the location surrounds the given point: Greece >Athens. 
  "<" means the location is inside the given city: Gate of the Guard <Jerusalem. 
  "~" means the location is approximate.

Offscreen place labels come into view

The labels for off-screen placemarks pop into view when you zoom in. The problem is exacerbated when you tilt the globe while zoomed in. These invalid labels remain fixed to the screen when you pan globe, i.e., they don't move in sync with the terrain.

The following three screenshots depict the issue. The first screenshot is a normal zoomed out view without any (known) issues. The second is zoomed-in on the same location showing a few valid placemarks and labels and many invalid labels. The third is zoomed in further and is populated entirely with invalid labels.

Screenshot 1: OK

Screenshot 2: Bad. Some valid placemarks, many invalid labels

Screenshot 3: Bad. All invalid labels.

Convert openbible.info data to GeoJSON

• Raw data: http://www.openbible.info/geo/data/places.txt

• Merged data (used for KML): http://www.openbible.info/geo/data/merged.txt

Add a timeline / gantt chart

Consider using vis.js or d3.js

Consider adding the timeline as an overlay on the globe.

Historic Borders

Hi I created https://historicborders.app to better understand region borders over time in history. This app is awesome for bible events if you need any help or want to update anything let me know!

Store the atlas in IndexedDB

Store the atlas data in an IndexedDB, perhaps using SQL like implementation like JSStore. Convert the KML into a relational DB structure.

Add place name search

Search for place names found in the Bible.

Consider using https://github.com/bvaughn/js-search

Consider an "Atlas" panel with a searchable list of all place names.