README.md

GFBio Search Map Widget

This repository contains a widget in the form of an OpenSocial Gadget that is compatible with Liferay. It receives bounding boxes of search results from the GFBio search and visualizes them on a map.

Important files

• gfbio_search_visualization.xml: This is the OpenSocial Gadget definition file.
• gfbio_search_visualization.html: This is the file the iframe of the widget has to point to.

API

The widget listens to gfbio.search.selectedData. The event must be of the following form:

{
    "data": {
        "selected": [{
            "title": "Data Set Title (not displayed)",
            "Author": "Data Set Author (not displayed)",
            "dataCenter": "Data Center Name (not displayed)",
            "color": "Color in Hexadecimal Notation (e.g. #ff0000)",
            "minLongitude": -180,
            "maxLongitude": 180,
            "minLatitude": -90,
            "maxLatitude": 90
        }]
    }
}

There can be more than one entry in the selected array. The bounds correspond to the bounding box of the data set in WGS84 format.