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A web standard icon for geotagging

Bruce — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:35:39 +0000

Geotagging (or geocoding if you prefer) is the act of associating your content (blog posts, photos, feeds, etc.) with a geographic location (e.g. via latitude and longitude co-ordinates). Thus tagged authors can "mash" their content together with the likes of Google Maps, or the Flickr Map if photography is your thing. However, co-ordinates are typically encoded within metadata (or microformat) tags making them visible to machines but hidden from people. We have de facto web standard icons to help identify feeds, OPML, and sharing—so why not for geotagged content? Update 29.02.08: Thanks to everyone who gave feedback or otherwise contributed to the process of taking this proposal forward. Comments are now closed and further feedback should now be directed to geotagicons.com, where you can now download the new community-designed geotag icon. The goods I propose a web standard Geotag Icon, to be used freely by any geotagger or geotagging service. Here is what it looks like at 128px: At 32px: And at 16px: Important: These images are not final; this is a proposal. Please do not hotlink to these images. You can download them individually by right-clicking the one you want, or as part of the draft Geotag Icon Development Kit here. Family line-up The family resemblance is obvious: Why not complete the set? Grab the Feed icon, the OPML icon, and the Open Share icon. Update 27.03.08: The Open Share Icon Project offers a free, open, community-driven alternative to the trademarked and brand-linked ShareThis.com icon. Icon specification It should be similar in style to existing de facto web standard icons (hereafter ...

Hyperlinked PDFs made with OmniGraffle

Bruce — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 21:32:00 +0000

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Isobel asks about creating intra-document hyperlinks in a PDF exported from OmniGraffle Pro. Here's how I would do it. Links to online documents Write your text containing the hyperlink. I include the hyperlink within the main text, but use the Font palette to underline and colour it to make it stand out: I then create a new borderless object to sit over the text that I want to turn into a hyperlink. The advantage of doing it this way it that you can create a clickable area that is significantly bigger than would be created if you put the text inside its own object; this makes it easier for the reader to active the hyperlink: With the clickable object selected, go to the Actions palette and set the Browse Tool to open a URL: When you're done editing, save the document to PDF: Opening the PDF in Preview, the Browse Tool should reveal a clickable hyperlink: Links to other pages in the same document This time in the Actions pane, instead of Opens a URL, choose Jumps Elsewhere. Now you have to choose both the type of jump, and the target canvas. To create a link to a particular page (canvas in Omnigraffle-speak) we want to choose Switch to a Specific Canvas: Select the target canvas/ page: This will cause the hyperlink to jump to another page, but not focus on any part of it. If you wanted to be more specific (such as jumping to a particular heading on another page), choose Center on a Point and use the ...

The hidden talents of OmniGraffle

Bruce — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 08:22:38 +0000

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I've bought OmniGraffle from The Omni Group 3 times. It just keeps getting better with each version, and the tag-line "Powerful diagramming and charting" doesn't really divulge what an easy-to-use and flexible application this is. Windows users might be familiar with Microsoft Visio; think of OmniGraffle as the Mac equivalent done right. For those of you who haven't heard of either product, go check out OmniGraffle's product information page. I previously written about flowcharts I create with OmniGraffle here. Recently I needed to update my CV and decided to re-do it and move from a simple Word layout to something a bit more eye-catching using OmniGraffle. I already had OmniGraffle 3 so downloaded the trial (with a 24 hour licence) of OmniGraffle Pro 4 to evaluate. Several advantages of the new version/ Pro version were soon apparent: I could specify a background on the Master canvas for a multi-canvas (multi-page) document; The interface is better organised; I could include hyperlinks that were preserved when my document was exported to PDF; I could export my multi-page document to a single PDF (previously I had to use PStill to combine exports of individual pages); I can export my previous clinical guidelines work to Visio XML drawing format (.vdx) so it can be edited on the PC (using Visio). It can also be viewed on the PC using the free Visio 2003 Viewer which is a plug-in for Internet Explorer; The new "Outline" function in the Utility Drawer is really cool. Enter text in the drawer which is automatically styled and ...

Guidelines: a solution for guideline overload

Bruce — Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:20:01 +0000

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As previously raised, there are many competing guidelines (NICE, NSF, PCT, etc.) and formularies (Clinical Terms, prescribing) that clinicians must take account of at the point-of-care. Most clinical systems used in British general practice offer templates to prompt data entry and pick-list formularies for prescribing and coding, but these only go so far. How can a practice take account of this competing management advice to streamline and standardize patient care? The answer, somewhat paradoxically, may be to produce another guideline... Why produce an in-house guideline? It promotes a shared standard of care, based on evidence; It can illustrate a role for in-house staff groups (e.g. doctors, nurses, admin) with defined responsibilities; It can converge multiple "competing" guidelines into one ("the best of the best"); It can condense overly complex guidelines for practical use at the point-of-care; It encourages continuity of care (we all follow the same plan); It enables audit against set criteria/ common Clinical Terms; It may improve cost effectiveness (e.g. linkage to a preferred drug formulary, rational lab tests); It should improve clinical outcomes ("best practice"); It could provide documentary evidence for the RCGP QPA; It can help maximise quality point payments under the New GMS Contract; As a guideline cf. protocol, it allows for clinical judgement/ patient preference; It can be useful tool for discussing treatment options with patients. Why use an intranet to publish in-house guidelines? They can be readily updated as the master copy is electronic; This ensures everybody is looking at the same (current) version; The guideline is easily located; It can be cross-linked to other relevant guidelines and documents (e.g. patient ...