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hbyel··on Show HN: Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
You can use the search button (left panel top) to filter arcs by place/collection. The left panel functions more like map navigation, while the search/command palette is a separate mode.
hbyel··on Show HN: Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
Thanks, you can filter by source in the search panel already.
hbyel··on Show HN: Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
Fair point, and a good idea. A visual marker distinguishing "has open data" from "doesn't" would meaningfully reduce that distortion. Adding it to the list.
hbyel··on Show HN: Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
thanks, agreed, will fix :)
hbyel··on Show HN: Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
Thanks! You actually can filter by source already, search lets you filter arcs by place/site. Destination filtering technically works too, via Collections, but that only makes sense while there are a handful, once it’s hundreds it’ll need its own proper destination filter. Good call on the color/gradient distinction for source vs. destination on the arcs too, that’s worth trying.
hbyel··on Show HN: Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
Fair catch, it only pulls from institutions with open access APIs (Met, V&A, SMB Berlin, AIC). Not aware of an equivalent from Japanese museums, if you know one, happy to add it.
hbyel··on Show HN: Ex Situ – Open-source spatial index of displaced cultural artifacts
Correct, scoped to western/euro-american museums as noted in the post, it’s just where I started. Open to expanding if there’s good open data to pull from.