Globe and Timeline Exploration Web Application

This application could be thought of as:

• a user friendly tool for research and education
• a new way of seeing history and data over geography and time-lapses
• play through spans of time, to see animation-like visuals over a geographical region 
• ie: see the trail of progress over time of a migration or a crusade
• ie: see the geographical movement of the statue of David, from quarry location, to museum, etc.
• an addictive search engine that teaches history
• a history-based, fact-based alternative to web surfing
• a potential source of advertising revenue
• a potential front-end for Wikipedia
• an application that frames perspective and scale around a central theme: the origins and advances of humanity

3 interactive methods of filtering

1. Interactive 13 Billion Year Timeline
2. Interactive 3D Universe / Globe
3. Search / Advanced Search filters

3D Globe Features

• Nation boundaries correspond to the timeline's year/period
• Nation selection mode and/or area selection mode can indicate a search filter
• (a nation selection will at times filter different results than a geographical selection)
• Detailed zoom levels are unavailable when they are not pertinent in scale
• (up to a point in the 13 billion year timeline, the 3D viewer is more like a guided tour than a method of filtering search results)
• Theorized views/animations for pre-Earth and Space
• Continental drift
• pangea
• molten Earth
• moon's origin
• galaxy
• galaxy cluster
• big bang

Timeline Features

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