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Archive for June 2008

Map panning and zooming methods

29 June 2008 tagged Academic, interactive maps, interfaces, online maps with 14 comments

Following last week’s post on losing context with interactive maps, I wanted to consider the different methods of navigating an interactive map (i.e., panning and zooming) and how they might affect that issue, and while I’m at it look at other aspects of these methods, too. A great place to start is the 2005 paper […]

You are here, but do you know where “here” is?

23 June 2008 tagged Academic, interactive maps with 2 comments

Bear with me as I relive some grad school memories (but not the fun ones) for a moment… Last year two of my University of Wisconsin colleagues (Jamon Van Den Hoek and Eve McGlynn) and I did a small research project to present at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers in San […]

Composite election maps

15 June 2008 tagged election maps with 3 comments

Since election season is nearly upon us again, I was reminded of a brief distraction of mine in 2006, namely the above map. It’s a composite map of Democrat vs. Republican election results in four races in Ohio, ostensibly giving an idea of how “Republican” or “Democrat” an area is. The process was, quite simply, […]

Continuous curves with ActionScript 3

8 June 2008 tagged as3, curves, drawing, isolines with 41 comments

Seeing my comrade Zach Johnson’s impressive work on generating isoline maps in Flash, I offered to try to lend a hand with smoothing the lines (point-to-point connections) he was deriving from interpolations via Delauney triangulation. I first turned to the fantastic book Foundation Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move!, in which Keith Peters presents a […]