GEOG411 Lab 4: States Won By a Presidential Party

Done with lab 4....

I originally had more graphics and more flashy (no pun intended) but decided to make it more simple and "eloquent".

Here's the link:

http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgonzalf/lab4.html

Even played around a bit with a "?"/Info place, although its pretty basic since you have to hold the click over it.
I really liked how it turned out, although there are some things I would change/expand. Overall I was going for a very simple and neat newspaper style map without too much clutter and think I achieved that goal. The map is meant to be on a webpage with text around and not a standalone map based on its size and simple round edges (to make blending into a website with white background more smooth)

Let me know what you guys think.

SCREENSHOT:

Map Find: NIU Huskie Line

I was in Chicagoland for the weekend visiting my girlfriend and was walking around her campus. They had TVs all over campus with a nice vector map that had pictures of buses moving around it to show where the HuskieLine (their bus line) buses were at the moment.

Pretty interesting map with simple animations. Seems as though it could have been a grad students project.

GEOG411 Lab 2 &3: NFL Cardinals Schedule

Flash map one, simple idea, but difficult to show with what we were allowed to use I thought. Had to show the cardinals schedule on map, showing where they played and results - would have been easy to show if all games were away, coloring states for WIN or LOSS there, but then some states have more than one team, and then what do you do with home states?

anyways, this is what i worked out. If tweens or animations were possible, when teams played in arizona, show the team they played, and then move the graphic to the state of the team played against. not sure if it makes sense.

Also, would have been possible to do a road-trip type map, moving the cardinals along a route (next game was played) and leaving behind dashed lines like map, but this would also require tweens

Mason webspace:

http://mason.gmu.edu/~jgonzalf/

Map Find: Simple Flash Map - Secret Prisons

Simple flash map, some nicer ones on the same page also.

This map is sort of a flip-book style, adding labels and new images, along with a simple zoom. not bad and very easy to make.

http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/cia-secret-prisons.html

GEOG411 Lab1: Presidential Election

Lab 1 of Advance Digital Cartography.!

uploaded as a .png format as it is lossless. For some reason, flash really makes the output look horrible if you publish it as a jpg. Even with compression and quality set to 100%, the image looks flat and blurry. I'm sure there is a way to make the output better, but since flash isn't meant to be an image editing software, I wouldn't expect if publishing or exporting as .jpg is less than great.

If any of you cannot view the .png file, let me know and i'll upload the .jpg version!

And so the semester begins

Advanced Digitcal Cartography, Aerial Photography, Meteorology and Climate - all interesting class this semester. Should be a good semester. So it begins.

Just for fun

I had the pleasure of talking to the good people at GeoEye on GIS DAY at mason, very cool people with very interesting plans, along with their brand new GeoEye-1 Earth Imaging Satellite

although most people have seen this image already, here it is again:

http://www.geoeye.com/CorpSite/gallery/detail.aspx?iid=220&gid=1

Spring Semester

And so a new semester starts. Winter break is over, inauguration just passed, and many maps have already been made to reflect it.

here are some maps showing the inauguration.

A very cool one with lots of info:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/inauguration-map.htm

This is a blog but shows a good process of them making an inauguration map:
http://geopdf.blogspot.com/2009/01/inauguration-map.html

And of course, CNN always has good maps:
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2009/44.president/inauguration/map/

Final Map

For my final iI decided to make a map showing both Volkswagen Dealer Locations in the Eastern US, along with the locations of major volkswagen car shows year round.

While looking at maps for the project, and ideas, I realized how many maps are used in advertisement - maps so simple that we sometimes forget they are still maps.

in creating this map, I wanted to resemble the simple style of volkswagen advertisement and mimick their still of ads. The map was kept simple with not much text or objects to dristract, but definetely gets the point across of dealer locations and show locations.

Some VW ads for reference:

http://www.adliterate.com/archives/VW_ThinkSmall.jpg
http://timescorrespondents.typepad.com/charles_bremner/images/2007/11/14/vw4.jpg
http://photo3.bababian.com/upload9/20080528/67B69885B2E3754583135C44697B5EFE.jpg


Links:
forums.vwvortex.com - Enthusiast Site
www.vw.com - VWOA main page
www.volkswagen.com -VW World Site
http://www.edmunds.com/dealerships/Volkswagen/index.html Dealersearch


with border:

Scribble maps!

This map looked interesting, made up of scribbles, not sure what grouping in scribbles mean. PLUS COLOR!