[Historic] the "spherical mercator" of time?

[Aaron Straup Cope]

It's definitely a thing that's been talked about in the past at Stamen.

If Mike and/or Tom aren't on the list already we should drag them in.

On 8/23/12 10:46 AM, Mikel Maron wrote:
> One thing I'm pondering is how to efficiently and easily share time
> aware geodata. Prior to Google gifting the world spherical mercator
> tiles, web maps were rendered on request, based bounding box,
> dimensions, projection. WMS was slow. Naturally I'd expect we'd use
> cached tiles for serving time data, but I don't see an obvious way of
> this not exploding to all arbitrary times in history. Perhaps enough to
> begin by expanding the tile template to /{time}/{zoom}/{x}/{y}, and
> maybe limiting time to year or decade or century. Is there something
> more clever? What ways do historians bring methodical order to the times
> and eras in history that are of most common interest and utility?
> * Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
>
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