{"id":2702,"date":"2016-03-08T14:44:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T19:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2023-03-11T11:59:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T16:59:54","slug":"ohio-is-still-a-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/ohio-is-still-a-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio is still a piano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a hundred years, no one will remember our work. Strike that, make it about five years. Digital, web-based work can break or disappear in an instant. I&#8217;ve certainly done some things which are now gone forever.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, one broken thing was the crazy <a href=\"http:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/the-music-of-geography-ohio-is-a-piano\/\">Ohio piano map<\/a> I made nearly seven years ago, in which counties of Ohio were represented by the sounds of piano keys, and data became music of sorts. Actually, it&#8217;s not entirely broken; the sounds and most interactions work, just with a big, persistent gray error because Google Maps for Flash is no longer a thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartogrammar.com\/flash\/piano\/Piano.html\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2703\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2703\" src=\"http:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ohiopiano_broken.jpg\" alt=\":(\" width=\"600\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ohiopiano_broken.jpg 600w, https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/ohiopiano_broken-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geography.wisc.edu\/faculty\/roth\/index.php\">Professor Robert Roth<\/a> insists that this ridiculous map is vital to the teaching of cartography, and who am I to stand in the way of education? So I dug up the old laptop that had the only copy of the Flash map&#8217;s source code and set about recreating the map in more modern HTML and JavaScript. It doesn&#8217;t have everything the old map has, but hey, it works. Bonus: now the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/awoodruff\/ohio-piano\">code can actually be seen<\/a>, on GitHub.<\/p>\n<p>It definitely does not work on mobile devices because playing audio elements on mobile is <em>complicated<\/em> and I don&#8217;t care enough, but if you&#8217;re on a desktop computer, here you go. Don&#8217;t touch this if you&#8217;re in a library or something without headphones. You&#8217;ll be embarrassed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/awoodruff.github.io\/ohio-piano\/\" width=\"800\" height=\"675\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a hundred years, no one will remember our work. Strike that, make it about five years. Digital, web-based work can break or disappear in an instant. I&#8217;ve certainly done some things which are now gone forever. Anyway, one broken thing was the crazy Ohio piano map I made nearly seven years ago, in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3046,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions\/3046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andywoodruff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}