Hi all, Britton, Cameron, Sam and I were chatting this weekend about a "google maps" style interface to 2D data, like slices and projections. We ended up finding a javascript library that handles it, so I wrote a simple little script that runs it. I'd love it if people could download and try it out. If you have yt installed, then you don't need anything other than this repo: https://bitbucket.org/MatthewTurk/yt_map You just need to change the loading of pf at the top to be a dataset on your local machine; I'd recommend one with a couple levels of refinement. (I really have checked that this works out of the box. ;-) Once you've pointed it at some other data, just do: python2.7 run.py and then open up: http://127.0.0.1:8080/ On my laptop, I get great performance, and it's even all hidden by the background-loading of tiles. The overhead for keeping a very large projection in memory can be as high as a couple hundred megs, but I think that's the only impediment to making this accessible on a public facing webserver. One could imagine this being used with multiple tile layers (which is supported by the javascript engine) for each field, adding in markers for halos/galaxies/star forming clumps, and then even textual annotations of those clumps. I think this could be pretty fun to play with. The entire code necessary to run this is in run.py; as you can see, it's super small and very straightforward. The entire thing is ~60 lines. It'll also probably get rolled into reason before the yt 2.2 release; it's really fun to use to explore data! Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, either through forking on BB or on the mailing list. -Matt PS I have a pretty cool dataset that can be explored with this, which I'm happy to turn on if you want to explore/experiment without downloading this to your machine. Contact me off-list if you do.