Enable specification of centering information via URL

Bug #571056 reported by Jack Ireland
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Helioviewer.org
Fix Released
Wishlist
Keith Hughitt

Bug Description

Currently, the link function in HV describes the content of each layer, but does not describe what is in the viewer window. A use case is that the user is zoomed in and is looking at something far from disk centre, but also has both the coronagraphs included, e.g.,

http://www.helioviewer.org/?date=2010-04-28T23:00:00.000Z&imageScale=5.26&imageLayers=[SOHO,EIT,EIT,195,0,100],[SOHO,LASCO,C2,white-light,1,100],[SOHO,MDI,MDI,continuum,1,50],[SOHO,LASCO,C3,white-light,1,50]

Pasting this link in to another browser does not exactly reproduce the original FOV (field of view). Under the assumption that the feature of interest is close to the centre of the FOV, then including this information improves the chances that users can swap links that actually point out what they want. The centre of the FOV can also be used as the centering information in JHV, and in JHV solar rotation tracking.

Revision history for this message
Keith Hughitt (keith-hughitt) wrote :

I'm in the middle of refactoring the Viewport code to make it more flexible and simpler to work with. When I'm done, this will be much simpler to implement.

Changed in helioviewer.org:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - [HV][JHV][feature request] put centre of field of view in the HTML link
- generated by HV.org
+ Enable specification of centering information via URL
Changed in helioviewer.org:
assignee: nobody → Keith Hughitt (keith-hughitt)
milestone: none → 2.2.1
Changed in helioviewer.org:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in helioviewer.org:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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