More Final Project progress and comments

There have been a few problems I've run into while designing this that still need figuring out, mainly design and look-wise problems, along with a few back-end problems.

Here are some things that still need figuring out:

• In showing 1 hour data, should there be separation of color for earthquakes that happened within the last ten minutes as opposed to quakes that happened within the last 45 minutes?
• In one day data, color will also be used to differentiate the time between the earthquakes. How many classes is best? 3 Colors, RED ORANGE YELLOW for 1 hour, 6 hours, 12+hours? Four classes? A smooth gradient going from red to yellow over a 24 hour span?
• Same problem for 1 week data- 1 day, 3 day, 5+ days? etc?
• Splash screen - needs alot of love and more a better and more appealing flow. (although I do like the seismogram I made, just not its placement etc)
  
  
• BACKEND PROBLEMS:
• Keep track of earhquake markers to allow for on the fly changes of size or other options by user
• Keep track of earthquake markers in different data sets (1 hour, 1 day, 1 week) to allow the user to toggle between them without having to redraw everytime
• Catch errors when user tries to view earthquakes when an active internet connection is not available - display cached data? Same problem for GoogleMap tiles not loaded.
• fix pan left up down right buttons.
• fix 'show source' content.
• change the info content
  
• Preloader to load all data before trying to display the map.

I didn't want to show the progress of my final project but decided to do so anyways. I figured who best to ask for opinions and ideas than the people I'm presenting it to.

If you guys have any ideas on visual changes and/or backend programming changes pleasseee let me know!


http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgonzalf/earthquakev2as3.html
(note this is NOT the most recent update)