Due to the number of monitoring sites we are accumulating in Great Lakes to Gulf as well as the other GeoDashboard sites, we are seeing an increasing number of pills on the left hand side of the screen.
This example shows the Fox River data only - which is small compared to the Tennessee dataset.
In cases where there are not so many pills under one section - there are still a lot of sections
When you combine both the left hand column becomes ungainly
Ideas
- Reduce the number of pills on the left
- only show 1 larger pill or an indicator icon - and indicate how many pills that pill represents
- make a default setting for larger pills and every large pill reflects X number of pills - default 10? 20?
2. Create a search which allows a user that knows exactly which monitoring station they wish to examine to go there directly without having to click on a pill (which could now be hidden within an aggregate pill)
3. Have icons that indicate if the pills are packed or not and an icon to click to unpack them (these are not usable icons - I know we have icon packs we can look at)
4. Possibly a suitcase icon to indicate the pills are "packed"? pack when there are more than 30 pills for a monitor? Color the suitcase the color of the original pill
Jong says - we can just use a larger pill as well
Mockup
Jong suggested that we don't need the scroll at all or the option to unpack pills
Once you click the unpack it would zoom in to the map - no need to expand the pills on the left because at this point people are most interested in the map - people won't be clicking on the pill to make the
tag pop up - they can click directly on the tag
it will reduce some of the overhead of managing pills on the left if we don't have to manage displaying so many.
