going-digital/lowestoft

Web site supporting the Suffolk town of Lowestoft.

lowestoft's Issues

Add sun almanac

Code to calculate position of sun. Predict interesting times in advance (eg. sunrise over the sea).

Improve presentation of data

Received complaints that the sky colour background in the table reduces readability.
Rise and fall icons are also too small.
Find a better way of presenting the data.

Implement tide tables

Data not sorting properly in Chrome

Add way to view historic almanac entries

Add geolocation

Use browser geolocation API if available to improve position accuracy.

Almanac icons inconsistent

Current almanac icons are emojis, which are inconsistently represented between platforms. Some are only black and white.

Switch to custom drawn icons.

Golden hour incorrect

Not working in Firefox

"SyntaxError: malformed Unicode character escape sequence"

Implement historic photos

Implement weather

Add local weather forecasts

Table starts at tomorrows date

Witnessed on Chrome at 10:30am.

Add interactive simulation of events

On mobile devices, use magnetometer, gyroscope and accelerometer (DeviceOrientation) to aid shot alignment. Adding rear camera overlay might assist further.

This would make it easier to arrange astronomical shots.

Implement ship tracking