# obspy-scan improvement

**URL:** https://discourse.obspy.org/t/obspy-scan-improvement/532
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**Created:** [June 1, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://discourse.obspy.org/t/obspy-scan-improvement/532 "2016-06-01T14:19:30Z")
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### Author: ![Anne\_Deschamps](https://discourse.obspy.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Anne\_Deschamps](https://discourse.obspy.org/u/Anne_Deschamps)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2016, 2:19pm UTC](https://discourse.obspy.org/t/obspy-scan-improvement/532/1 "2016-06-01T14:19:30Z")

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Hi

I don't know who wrote obspy-scan.  
Just I would like to submit an improvement suggestion : should that be possible to make the red vertical bar representing a gap of data in a color scale going from yellow to dark red (could be a logarithmic scale from 10sec to 1d for instance and saturated at the extrem values) depending of the length in sec of the gap.

I will help to quickly recognize if gaps are important or less important in a global analysis of one year for instance.

Thanks

Anne

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### Author: ![LionKrischer](https://discourse.obspy.org/user_avatar/discourse.obspy.org/lionkrischer/32/219_2.png) [@LionKrischer](https://discourse.obspy.org/u/LionKrischer)
#### Post date: [June 1, 2016, 2:52pm UTC](https://discourse.obspy.org/t/obspy-scan-improvement/532/2 "2016-06-01T14:52:42Z")

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Hi Anne,

good idea. I opened an issue on Github:

> <https://github.com/obspy/obspy/issues/1434>
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> Proposal from the mailing list:http://lists.swapbytes.de/archives/obspy-users/20…16-June/002075.html
> 
> Should be easy enough and seems like a very good idea!
> 
> \> Hi
> \> 
> \> I don't know who wrote obspy-scan.
> \> Just I would like to submit an improvement suggestion : should that be possible to make the red vertical bar representing a gap of data in a color scale going from yellow to dark red (could be a logarithmic scale from 10sec to 1d for instance and saturated at the extrem values) depending of the length in sec of the gap.
> \> 
> \> I will help to quickly recognize if gaps are important or less important in a global analysis of one year for instance.
> \> 
> \> Thanks
> \> 
> \> Anne

If somebody wants to work on this, please comment in the issue thread on  
github.

Cheers!

Lion