Re: Brainstorm - The Blue Alliance v4
 

I think you're map is a little shifted. I imagine those heat clusters about an hour northwest of Milwaukee and Chicago are intended for the cities...

Re: Brainstorm - The Blue Alliance v4
 

Agreed. It's a really cool map, I see the heat cluster for Rochester is in the middle of Lake Ontario though.

Re: Brainstorm - The Blue Alliance v4
 

yeah I noticed the same. the code for the heatmap generation wasn't mine.
http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/...flash-api.html

as the feature itself was a delighter (idea came from call of duty's heatmap) and a non-critical feature, I figured the shift didn't take away from the effect I wanted it to have :) I will try to fix the bug, but the next thing I wanted to look at was the total point spread for each team in 2010.

A previous poster mentioned that comparisons would be nice, right now I am trying to make a reputation engine based on the TBA info.

Another map I wanted to generate was that of rookie teams, showing which areas have the most growth.

Update:
Generated the rookie map, way to go Dallas and Salt Lake City!



And I want to say thanks to TBA for opening this information in an API.

Re: Brainstorm - The Blue Alliance v4
 

Maybe this is an issue with the TBA API, but there don't seem to be any teams in Seattle. I know some XBots and Skunks who would be disappointed with their lack of existence.;)

Re: Brainstorm - The Blue Alliance v4
 

They are in the api. It could be an issue with google, they only allow so many calls, and they tend to reject some of mine.
Also, the way I am accessing the api is through my backend so it may be getting corrupted there.

Again this was one day of coding to produce this, it seems CD is a great bug tracking source :)

Edit:
I confirmed that google is rejecting some of my calls, pretty much every team from a state after South Carolina (alphabetical order). Once I store the lat/long on the backend this should be fixed

Once again if TBA added the lat/longs, no one else would have this issue. Also when trying to pull teams, rather than calling "getTeams()" a teamnumber range function would be nice, an alternative to going from state to state.

Update:
fixed the alignment problem
here's the rookie map

Re: Brainstorm - The Blue Alliance v4
 

So does anybody have any idea when the new version of TBA will be completed?

Re: Brainstorm - The Blue Alliance v4
 

How about a system of user ratings? Kind of like the stars on Amazon. Perhaps there could be a rating system for things that are not reflected in the official stats. For example, Teamwork, Robot reliability, Gracious Professionalism, etc.

Re: Brainstorm - The Blue Alliance v4
 

I have a file that contains all the teams from 1992-2010 geocoded. I attached it. I assume you are generating this from a language that can handle json.