{"id":46,"date":"2008-01-10T10:54:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T18:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.astroplanner.net\/?p=46"},"modified":"2008-05-17T07:21:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-17T15:21:17","slug":"user-contributed-plan-downloads-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.astroplanner.net\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"User-Contributed plan downloads revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a recent posting on the AstroPlanner Yahoo group that got me to thinking about how to improve the user-contributed plan database and downloading procedure. In V1.6 it leaves a lot to be desired. Without further ado, here&#8217;s the new V2 way of doing things&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nFirstly, when you upload a plan to the database, you now have to specify a category for the plan. This consists of up to three levels. The first level is selected from a fixed list. The next two levels can either be selected from the comboboxes&#8217; pull-down menu, or typed in if an appropriate entry isn&#8217;t present in the list.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.astroplanner.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/userplan1.jpg\" alt=\"userplan1.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"350\" height=\"251\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The on-line database is now hierarchical, and is built based on the categories embedded in the uploaded plans. When you download from AstroPlanner, you can choose your plans from a whole mess of options.<\/p>\n<p>The first option (hierarchy level) contains the ten most recently uploaded plans.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.astroplanner.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/userplan2.jpg\" alt=\"userplan2.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"550\" height=\"385\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Note that you can choose as many as you like to download using the checkboxes. You can also use the checkboxes in the hierarchy to select or deselect entire hierarchies.<\/p>\n<p>The next option lists all of the plans, sorted in various orders (in this example, by number of objects). Note that a particular plan can appear in many places in the hierarchy.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.astroplanner.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/userplan3.jpg\" alt=\"userplan3.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"550\" height=\"385\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The next option is to choose based on the category itself. You can dig down through the hierarchy to find exactly what you want.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.astroplanner.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/userplan4.jpg\" alt=\"userplan4.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"550\" height=\"385\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The final option is to find plans based on what types of objects are inside them.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.astroplanner.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/userplan5.jpg\" alt=\"userplan5.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"550\" height=\"385\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Here we&#8217;re looking at all plans containing one or more galaxies, sorted in descending order of number of galaxies in the plan (in [square brackets]).<\/p>\n<p>Stuff not implemented yet will include a search feature that will add a list of plans containing text that you specify.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Late Breaking<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I just added the above-mentioned search feature. Each time you use it, it adds another &#8220;node&#8221; containing any plans that match the search string.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.astroplanner.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/userplans6.jpg\" alt=\"userplans6.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"550\" height=\"385\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Also, if you are not a registered (paid) user of V2 you will be restricted to selecting only those plans that include objects from the 3 base catalogues (Messier, NGC or Bright Star), as shown below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.astroplanner.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/userplan7.jpg\" alt=\"userplan7.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"550\" height=\"385\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a recent posting on the AstroPlanner Yahoo group that got me to thinking about how to improve the user-contributed plan database and downloading procedure. 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