draw a pretty timeline graphic w/ text?

[Richard Weait]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 5:55 AM, Matt Price <moptop99-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi eveyone,
>
> I'm trying to do something that seems really simple to me but i still don't
> know how to do.  I want to draw a timeline that represents the stages of a
> research project (inception, research, presentation, writing, submission,
> publication...)  and I would like it to look something like this:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> \                             \
>  \                             \
>   inception                research
>
> only I want it to be pretty, say with little circular nodes connecting the
> digonal lines to the main horizontl lines, and with the text aligned
> diagonally along the lines.  Shouldn't this be easy to do, either in
> Openoffice (ick) or with another tool?  in fact shouldn't i be able to
> generate this automatically from a set of terms, say, in a spreadsheet?
>
> and yet I haven't been able to do it.  I will resort to gimp if i have to
> but for me that means hours of fiddling with the arcane interface...
>
> Thanks as always for your help!


Hi Matt,

I wish I had a canned solution for you.  This is similar to what I
imagine you want, and is built from a database on a web site, so I
imagine that it would be simple[1] to build your time lines as needed.
 I was blown away by their results.

http://78.46.81.38/misc/showroom.svg

Sadly I don't have any details for you beyond the discussion by the
participants in this list.

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-transit/2010-February/000900.html

[1]after the wee matter of learning the tools and adapting the data schema.
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