[maps.soton] Re: Updates (and bus routes stuff)

[Christopher Gutteridge]

good idea. done.

Do we get the workstation data live or as part of the big JSON? Ideally 
the big JSON file should be cached and live data loaded separately.

On 20/09/2014 12:53, Christopher Baines wrote:
> On 20/09/14 12:37, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
>> I've deployed the version with the changes we made last week (popups
>> rather than modal for buildings)
> Ok, it might be worth redeploying using "grunt release", as it decreases
> the size of the css and js.
>
>> What do the timeout changes impact?
> Mostly the fetching of the data.json file, it will now wait 4 (rather
> than 3) seconds before aborting a request, and it will now only retry
> fetching the data.json file after 5 seconds (rather than 1 second) if it
> fails.
>
>> (I'm wondering if we should try to get the phone to cache some of the
>> content for speed?)
> Yeah, that sounds like something worth considering. The other thing to
> note, is currently the request includes the current time as a parameter
> (to prevent caching). I added this as I wanted to get the file from the
> server during development, but I am unsure what effect it will have for
> standard users.
>
>
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