Link to Final Web Page

Final Map

Final Map - Formation of America and the Statehood by Year

Lab 10

Heat Map of DUI Fatalities from 2013

Active Link: Lab 10 Heatmap

Lab7

This one gave me a lot of trouble....there is still a weird bug but it works for the most part. It'll show up originally as black but when you hover the mouse over it you'll get the info and the color will change.

Link: Lab 7

Lab 9

Working Link for Map: Lab 9

Lab 8

This caused sooo many problems.....

Spring 2015 GGS411 Project Proposal

For my semester project I have had an idea in my head for a few weeks. I would like to take an animated trip through our nations history. What I mean by this is I would like to take a map and start with the founding of the American Colonies and then show the progression of the growth of the nation. I plan on showing the formation of the US States since discovery. I will show French, Spanish and British colonies and then have them grow or shrink according to historical record. An example is how Virginia's boundaries were much further west then present day. I will be using for the most part Flash and step by step and many many frames creating an animation of fluid movement of that process. While this happens in certain area I will also plop in states as they were founded after 1776 and after. For my data I know that it should be hard to find old maps to help isolate previous boundaries. Hopefully I will be able to get those areas about right on my product. I will begin to start this process hopefully rather quick after the proposal discussion. For issues that I may have of course will be in flash...because its Flash, but also trying to get my location right and trying to solve the issue of land claims.  The British, French and Spanish all had overlapping claims initially. Another that may creep up is how to do both Alaska and Hawaii. I'm think somehow throwing two boxes in there somewhere but haven't resolved that issue just yet in my head.Below is a link to a rough example of what I would like to do but of course more polished. The example seems a bit clunky and does not have a fluid motion to it.

Clunky American Growth Map

Lab6 D3 and GeoJSON/TopoJson Intro

Some of this was a troublesome....

http://mason.gmu.edu/~tplapp/Lab6.html

All Polished up Lab # 5

Map find for Week 4 & 5

I know its bit late but here are my examples of week 4 and 5 find. It uses a tween to show the spread of a zombie infection. Of course because trying to find it my wife is also watching "The Walking Dead" this would come up. Screen Shot and link below.

http://www.dailydot.com/technology/zombie-apocalypse-interactive-map/

Weekly Map find # 6

For my week 6 find. I took a capture of this one from NatGeo. It had a small what I beleive to be is a splash screen. Then I liked it because it looks to be a good refernce map. It even has the ability to add layers kind of like in GIS.

http://mapmaker.education.nationalgeographic.com/

Lab # 5 All Polished Up?

Lab # 4 Train Travel

Lab # 3 Republican Election State Wins 1980 - 1996

Weekly Map find #3

For this map you are able to toggle on and off different option of Brewpubs, Bar, Breweries etc...It also can give you the address of the selected place! Must say I'll probably go back to this one sometime.

Link: Beer Lovers Map!

Lab # 2 Road to SB (sooooo glad its done)

Weekly Map # 2

http://www.eduplace.com/kids/socsci/ca/books/bkf3/imaps/AC_14_463_christianity/AC_14_463_christianity.html

Banda Aceh Pre/post Tsunami

Pre Tsunami June 2004

Post Tsunami Dec 26th, 2004

Interactive Weather Map

Here's a current snapshot of the weather map for our area. I like using Weather Underground simply because of the ability to interact with what weather you would like to see on your map. Another great point to it is when you've selected whatever variable you like you can look at it over time. Definitely helpful to a weather bug like myself.