TimeMapper without Twitter?

[haggis78]

In light of the chaos at Twitter, we can't take it for granted that everyone has or wants to have an account there, or that they'll even exist in 2023. What prospects are there for a way to sign in to TimeMapper that are independent of Twitter? Thank you.

[aivuk]

I did some work to make it possible to use TimeMapper without an Twitter account and there is now an experimental version where you can use TimeMapper even without hosting your spreadsheets on Google. Suppose that you have a google spreasheet, you can visualize it as a timemapper using:

https://aivuk.github.io/TimeMapper2/?url=URL_TO_A_CSV_OR_GOOGLE_SPREADSHEET

Example:

https://aivuk.github.io/TimeMapper2/?url=https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V94J2fN9bAA6mSw_o1cIOVsP7EYOdn2jQChshGRCi3M/pub?output=csv

Instead of using Google Spreadsheet you could also provide an URL where your CSV is openly accessible:

https://aivuk.github.io/TimeMapper2/?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aivuk/TimeMapper2/master/docs/battles.csv

In that way an user can use TimeMapper without any account and share the link above. The only thing that we would miss is a page listing all the TimeMaps created by an individual user.