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timezone-picker

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A Google Maps (or OpenLayers) + Olson Time Zones mashup to do a timezone picker

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Live demos
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  - Google Maps: http://scratch.andrewl.in/timezone-picker/example_site/gmaps_example.html
  - OpenLayers: http://scratch.andrewl.in/timezone-picker/example_site/openlayers_example.html

Prerequisites
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  - jQuery
  - Google Maps Javascript API v3 or OpenLayers

Usage
-----
See gmaps_example.html and openlayers_example.html

./setup_example.sh
    ./run.sh
    http://localhost:8000/gmaps_example.html
    http://localhost:8000/openlayers_example.html

Setup
-----
To use in your site, extract tz_json.tgz to a web-accessible location on your
server and pass in the path as the jsonRootUrl option

Options
-------
  - fillColor: the color of the fill of the rendered timezones (default '#ffcccc')
  - fillOpacity: the opacity of the outline of rendered timezones (default 0.5)
  - initialLat: the initial latitude for the center point of the map (default 0)
  - initialLng: the initial longitude for the center point of the map (default 0)
  - initialZoom: the initial zoom level of the map (1-20, default to 2, 1 is most zoomed out)
  - jsonRootUrl: the default root URL for the JSON data files (default '/tz_json/')
  - strokeColor: the color of the outline of rendered timezones (default '#ff0000')
  - strokeWeight: the width of the outline of rendered timezones (default 2)
  - strokeOpacity: the opacity of the outline of rendered timezones (default 0.7)
  - onHover: callback when a timezone is hovered.  Parameters: utcOffset (in minutes), tzNames (array of strings)
  - onReady: callback when all the data files are loaded
  - onSelected: callback when a timezone is selected via the infowindow. Parameters: olsonName, utcOffset (in minutes), tzName (eg. EST, GMT)
  - useOpenLayers: use OpenLayers instead of Google maps

Methods
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  - showInfoWindow(htmlString): show an infoWindow for the current selected region.  Takes an HTML string as a parameter
  - hideInfoWindow(): hide it
  - setDate(Date): set the "relative" date for the picker for proper timezone names (eg. EST vs EDT)
  - selectZone(olsonName): programmatically select a timezone

CSS Classes
-----------
  - timezone-picker-infowindow: the main content container for the infowindow
  - NOTE: if you are using Twitter Bootstrap and Google maps or OpenLayers, you may need something like
```
#zonepicker img {
  max-width: none;
}
```
    to prevent distortion of your map controls (thanks michaelahlers!)

For Data File Generation
------------------------
You do not need to do all of the steps mentioned below if you're going to use `tz_json.tgz` (the timezone data JSON files are in there already).

This plugin uses a bunch of timezone data files on a web server.

- bounding_boxes.json: an array of bounding boxes for each timezone (for hit testing)
  - hover_regions.json: an array of polygons representing hover regions for each timezone
  - polygons/*.json: polygon definitions for each timezone

Requires:

* Python 2.6+
* libgeos-dev (sudo apt-get install libgeos-dev) (for Mac OS, brew install geos)
* pip (sudo easy_install pip)
* shapely (sudo pip install shapely)
* pytz (sudo pip install pytz)
* simplejson (sudo pip install simplejson)

To Generate all timezone data JSON files

- Download and extract the tz_world file from http://efele.net/maps/tz/world/tz_world.zip
  - `python script/gen_json.py <path-to-tz_world.shp> <output-dir>`
  - Be very patient...

Acknowledgments
----------------
  - Thanks to Eric Muller for creating the timezone shape files (http://efele.net/maps/tz/world)
  - Thanks to Zachary Forest Johnson for the shp file loading python scripts (http://indiemaps.com/blog/2008/03/easy-shapefile-loading-in-python/)

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