Spring 2014 Weekly Tasks

1. Major Features

• Minimap (Alvaro)
• User-defined bookmarks (Alvaro)
  • Add
  • Edit
  • Delete
• Nomenclature (Eddie)
• Marker tool (Daniel)
• Search (Eddie)
• Complete layer selection UI (Eddie)
  • Use ExpandableListView for layer selection.
  • Reorder selected layers using drag & drop.
  • Edit the properties of a selected layer, e.g. alpha.
• 3D Map
• Additional Tools, e.g. Elevation, Hazard, Slope, Lighting ...

2. Minor Features and Improvements

• Use background Loader to update config/bookmark/layer/tile data.
• Improve the speed of the initial loading of the layer data.
• Improve the responsiveness of MapActivity when the user comes back from another Activity.
• Show map legends on colored maps.
• Allow change of tile cache size in Settings.
• Improve the user-friendliness of the marker tool, e.g. "draw on map" (see the ArcGIS sample Draw Graphic Elements), or add indicators when a marker is created (e.g. show the start point after the first touch for a line marker).
• Full screen mode.
• Help. Maybe an HTML document displayed in a WebView.
• About.
• Other minor things that come up during beta testing.

3. Other

• Project documentation
• Final presentation and poster

Week 1

• Minimap and user-defined bookmarks (Alvaro)
• Marker tool (Daniel)
• Layer selection UI and search (Eddie)

Week 2

• Alvaro: minimap, then user-defined bookmarks.
• Daniel: complete current marker types, add a circle marker type (approximated by a polygon), then work on improving the user-friendliness of the marker tool.
• Eddie: complete the layer selection UI, then search.

Week 3

• Daniel: complete the marker tool with all marker types (point, line, rectangle, circle, polyline, polygon, and free-hand) and the proper ways to create different types of markers.
• Alvaro:
  • Finish up minimap: fix the bugs; add the cross-hair with coordinates at the center.
  • Work on user-defined bookmarks
• Eddie:
  • Finish up layer UI: tablet layout; better animation of layer re-ordering; show layer description and metadata.
  • Work on the search tool.

Week 4

• Alvaro: user-defined bookmarks
• Eddie: search
• Daniel: Help, About, and Settings (tile cache size, metric system, and anything else you want to add).

Week 5

Continue with Week 4 tasks.

Week 6

• Alvaro: complete user-created bookmarks.
• Eddie: complete Search
• Daniel: out for the week due to family emergency.

I added a nomenclature feature to our To Do list. It should work pretty much like the bookmark tool so Alvaro can work on that after the user bookmark is completed. Eddie will go back to the layer UI after search is completed. Daniel should finish Help, About, and Setting next week.

Week 7

• Alvaro: fix bugs in user-created bookmarks until the end of Tuesday, then work on map legends and full screen mode.
• Eddie: improve the looks of the search result activity and the layer display activity by the end of Tuesday, then finish up the search function (select nonmenclature/bookmark in search results) and nonmenclature browsing.
• Daniel: complete Help, About, and Settings.

Week 8

• Alvaro: swipe-to-delete for user-defined bookmarks (and possibly for removing selected layer too); display legends on colored maps.
• Daniel: finish About; make the layout of Help look better.
• Eddie: reorder layer by drop & drop.
• ALL: documentation, Help, poster, and presentation.