Don't actually understand some aspects of the time slider

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Reporter: feedback bot
Assignee: hoefft
Type: Improvement
Summary: Don't actually understand some aspects of the time slider
Priority: Minor
Resolution: Fixed
Status: Closed
Created: 2013-09-24 16:44:28.347
Updated: 2015-09-22 11:50:18.758
Resolved: 2015-09-22 11:50:18.692
        
        
Description: The time slider on maps does not allow me to move the start and end points to the same place.  This is reasonable for the decades - I assume that if I select 1900 to 1910 it does not include 1910 (although that's not clear).  It feels much odder for the "No date" category which seems to require me to select everything from "No date" to "pre-1900 (since I can't move the circles to overlap one another).

If I stand back from it, and consider the analogy of 1900 to 1910, I assume that this actually just means that the fact that the slider ends at "pre-1900" is irrelevant and that it just returns the "no date" records.

One part of the problem is that both circles look the same and there is therefore no reason to assume that one end is included and the other is excluded.

A UI that focused more on the intervals and whether they were selected might be clearer/cleaner than one that makes me focus on the ends of the line.

This is not urgent but should be revisited at some point.

*Reporter*: Donald Hobern
*E-mail*: [mailto:dhobern]]]>
    

Author: hoefft
Created: 2015-09-22 11:50:18.756
Updated: 2015-09-22 11:50:18.756
        
No longer relevant at it is solved by the new map interface.
If the new interface is difficult to use, it should be addressed as a new issue.