Monday, April 20, 2015
Blog Post 8: Crime Heat Maps in DC
This site is focuses on real estate so they highlight schools, crime and other areas you would factor into buying or renting a place. The crime tab shows a heat map of the area using a red to green scale (Red meaning less safe, green meaning safe). It also has roll over information for certain crimes, Its not updated very frequently and doesn't update with all reported crimes maybe only a few in an area so the information provided should be taken with a grain of salt. Check out the map on the link below you can also look at other areas besides DC.
Sunday, April 12, 2015
Lab 8: Leaflet.js Part I
http://mason.gmu.edu/~ralaruri/Lab8.html I used total population from european countries because the city data was limited and didn't provide population for different years for all the cities.
Blog Post 7: Global Flooding Map
This map shows the possible global change sea level and how it would effect countries. You can change inches the sea level rises and zoom in to see more closely how the countries mostly their borders will be covered with water as sea level rises. It also shows the estimated population that would be flooded in certain countries. Check out the map on the link below.
Monday, April 6, 2015
Final Project Proposal
For my final project I want to
create an interactive tour map using Jamie XX’s tour for the summer and fall schedule.
Reason why I choose this is because I like his music, his minimalistic art
style, and I thought it would be helpful for someone trying to see where he is performing
and where it would be easiest to see him. Primarily the audience for this map
is fans of Jamie XX.
I will be using similar design elements used
on his website and album art, using his logo, same color schemes, and fonts. I
will be using flash for project, but I want this to be a useable map with
clickable links that lead to the actual place to buy tickets at the venue and have
the actually point on the map close to where the location is.
Currently there are 24 tour dates
announced which are located all over the world but most in the US and Europe
which ill be plotting. Because his design is really simple I don’t want to
clutter the map, so I will follow similar design cues used on his website and
album art. I have all the hex codes the colors he uses in his album art, his
logo is really easy to recreate, I just need the names of the fonts or find
similar fonts that match.
Elements I want incorporate are:
- A splash screen to give a brief
idea of what people are going to be looking at.
-Roll over elements on the location
of the tour showing what the name of the venue is and if it’s a part of a festival
or not.
-Also clickable Links on the
locations to lead to the actual venues site to buy tickets
-A side bar showing all the dates
for each location.
Issues and concerns I have are:
-If I should have a static map of
the world or create a zoom able map in flash which I am not sure how to do and
I am sure I can figure out online
-Because of the design being simple,
I think it might be too little to have on a final project
- I want/wanted to maybe try to use
create a leaflet map of the locations But I don’t know if that’s doable in the
time frame because I would want to have the locations be clickable to lead to
the venue site and also I would be missing out design elements that are
signature to the artist because I am not sure how to incorporate it them also
in the time frame and if its out of the scope of my current knowledge to do so.
- Copyright issues.
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