I built this last year for some research and then swiftly forgot about releasing it to the public. Here it is now:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/gitlab.com\/Hannes42\/OpenLayersViewTracker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nTry it online: https:\/\/hannes42.gitlab.io\/OpenLayersViewTracker\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nSome awful but working JavaScript code to track a website user’s interaction with a Open Layers map. You can use this to do awesome user studies and experiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nRuns client-side\n<\/li>\nYou will get a polygon of each “view”!\n<\/li>\nYou can look at them in the browser!\n<\/li>\nThere are also timestamps! Hyperaccurate in milliseconds since unix epoch!\n<\/li>\nAnd a GeoJSON export!\n<\/li>\nThis works with rotated views!\n<\/li>\nWritten for Open Layers 4 using some version of JSTS, see the libs\/ directory. No idea if it works with the latest versions or if Open Layers changed their API again.\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\nPlease do some funky research with it and tell me about your experiences! Apart from that, you are on your own.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThere is a QGIS project with example data included. Check out the Atlas setup in the Print Layout!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nScreenshot from a browser session<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\nResulting GeoJSON in QGIS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nSo if Time Manager supports the timestamp format you could interactively scroll around. I did not try, that plugin is so finicky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/video>Replaying what I looked at in a Open Layers web map, using QGIS Atlas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I built this last year for some research and then swiftly forgot about releasing it to the public. Here it is now: https:\/\/gitlab.com\/Hannes42\/OpenLayersViewTracker Try it online: https:\/\/hannes42.gitlab.io\/OpenLayersViewTracker\/ Some awful but working JavaScript code to track a website user’s interaction with a Open Layers map. You can use this to do awesome user studies and experiments. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartography","category-gis","category-qgis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Try it online: https:\/\/hannes42.gitlab.io\/OpenLayersViewTracker\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nSome awful but working JavaScript code to track a website user’s interaction with a Open Layers map. You can use this to do awesome user studies and experiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nRuns client-side\n<\/li>\nYou will get a polygon of each “view”!\n<\/li>\nYou can look at them in the browser!\n<\/li>\nThere are also timestamps! Hyperaccurate in milliseconds since unix epoch!\n<\/li>\nAnd a GeoJSON export!\n<\/li>\nThis works with rotated views!\n<\/li>\nWritten for Open Layers 4 using some version of JSTS, see the libs\/ directory. No idea if it works with the latest versions or if Open Layers changed their API again.\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\nPlease do some funky research with it and tell me about your experiences! Apart from that, you are on your own.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThere is a QGIS project with example data included. Check out the Atlas setup in the Print Layout!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nScreenshot from a browser session<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\nResulting GeoJSON in QGIS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nSo if Time Manager supports the timestamp format you could interactively scroll around. I did not try, that plugin is so finicky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/video>Replaying what I looked at in a Open Layers web map, using QGIS Atlas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I built this last year for some research and then swiftly forgot about releasing it to the public. Here it is now: https:\/\/gitlab.com\/Hannes42\/OpenLayersViewTracker Try it online: https:\/\/hannes42.gitlab.io\/OpenLayersViewTracker\/ Some awful but working JavaScript code to track a website user’s interaction with a Open Layers map. You can use this to do awesome user studies and experiments. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartography","category-gis","category-qgis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Some awful but working JavaScript code to track a website user’s interaction with a Open Layers map. You can use this to do awesome user studies and experiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please do some funky research with it and tell me about your experiences! Apart from that, you are on your own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a QGIS project with example data included. Check out the Atlas setup in the Print Layout!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So if Time Manager supports the timestamp format you could interactively scroll around. I did not try, that plugin is so finicky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/video>Replaying what I looked at in a Open Layers web map, using QGIS Atlas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I built this last year for some research and then swiftly forgot about releasing it to the public. Here it is now: https:\/\/gitlab.com\/Hannes42\/OpenLayersViewTracker Try it online: https:\/\/hannes42.gitlab.io\/OpenLayersViewTracker\/ Some awful but working JavaScript code to track a website user’s interaction with a Open Layers map. You can use this to do awesome user studies and experiments. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartography","category-gis","category-qgis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I built this last year for some research and then swiftly forgot about releasing it to the public. Here it is now: https:\/\/gitlab.com\/Hannes42\/OpenLayersViewTracker Try it online: https:\/\/hannes42.gitlab.io\/OpenLayersViewTracker\/ Some awful but working JavaScript code to track a website user’s interaction with a Open Layers map. You can use this to do awesome user studies and experiments. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartography","category-gis","category-qgis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1238,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/1238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hannes.enjoys.it\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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