Final Project

Questions:

1) I went for the D.C. colors, but is this too intense?

2) Should I add more on/off features

3) I know the checkboxes are small, does anyone know how to make these bigger?

4) I will be adding shape tweens as the flood moves out into the city, do you guys think this is too much or I should just show it as an on/off function since I only have it for two dates

5) How do I make this look cooler/less plain?

Map I wish I made

So this map is AWESOME!

It was made by UMD Language Science Center, and has all of the different languages spoken in every country around the world! You can click on each nation and a text block comes up that you can then click on the different languages within the country that will zoom you to that geographic area in which the language is spoken!

THAT IS SO COOL! I don't know any reason why I would want to make this map, but I think it's really cool to look at all the different areas in which people speak different languages and how aggregated some can be. Multiple languages in one country only one in another... great to look at!


map of different languages around the world



In this screenshot I clicked on the DRC in Africa and all these different languages popped up!

Nepal before and after

This map is interesting in that you can pan in and out and see the detail with two separate maps within the map to compare before and after Nepal's 2015 earthquake as well as the damage level over certain rollover areas.


 Before and After Nepal Map

Interactive Javascript map

These are kind of hard to find. This one was found for you to actually put your own information in or change it around in the script, but it's originally set as dot density population bubbles for the entire world... pretty cool color choice and it's easy to pan in and out with rollovers that tell you exactly how many people are in each country.

Interactive Javascript map of populations

Lab 10 HEAT MAP!!!

I used data from city data that gave me the top 101 cities with average precipitation and a population greater than 50,000. Even though I have 101 different cities, it's not enough for my map to look very cool, but it looks kind of cool ;) !


Top 101 Cities with Highest Level of Precipitation and Population Greater Than 50K

Lab 9: Intensive Drought Levels in Percentile from the Last Decade in States Vulnerable to Water Access

This lab was interesting because my data was so small it was hard to get the circles to size up and align. Thanks to Matt for getting me through this one!


Levels of Drought in States Vulnerable to Water Accessibility

Panning Map Lab 8

Originally I wanted to do top 20 cities with drought levels, but the data in the drought monitoring website is only state wide, so I tried doing that, but there was really only data for the top 10 cities. Then I found data on areas with high levels of population (>100,000) from the Univ. of Floridas study (2012 study on hydrology) and checked the top 20 cities within this study and their relationship to drought from the drought monitoring website (http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/) based on each state. I also used the three driest years within the last decade, and present day. All of the data has been collected from the first week of January within each year, even though you can't see that in the map right now.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy.

Levels of Drought in States Vulnerable to Water Accessibility

Panning in a Map

So, this map is really pretty, and incredibly interesting, and each dot.... is a person... So you can zoom into each dot and back out. Really interesting to look at. Pretty straight forward once you get to the page, but it's mapping race by color on the legend and the aggregation of the different colors makes for a beautiful map that's representative of so much more.



The Racial Dot Map: One Dot = One Person

Lab 7: Virginia's Population by County

This lab was fun! Didn't take long, and fun to change the colors around. I don't know why  my background color isn't working, but yay!


Here's the link since it's hard to see on the blog:
Homaira's Lab 7 Map

Project Proposal

Sea level rise is one of the main concerns of climate change. With most of the world's population living in coastal areas, this can have a large impact on population displacement. Not only is sea level rise important to the people living in the area but the environment that will change as a result of the impacts flooding will make. These impacts will have an effect on industries, economies, historic sites, and as mentioned earlier population.

Although it would be great to be able to map all of the potentials of sea level rise on the globe, or even the U.S., for my presentation I will be focusing on D.C. Maryland and Virginia. I will be using data from FEMA and the dc.gov website. I will be working on a map I have done previously, that while I was doing it thought it would be so much nicer if it were interactive.

It will be based on several maps I had done of D.C.'s flood areas and the impacts over time for GGS 311 (Intro to GIS), but will be expanding my research to include the metro area, as well as making my map interactive with shape tweens much like the ones we did for our railroad lab along with a timeline moving from 30 years before present --> present --> 50 years from present.

For the presentation I would like to potentially use javascript as it seems like something I would probably be using more in the future, but am not quite sure which would work better for what I am trying to do. Everything that I want to do seems like things we have worked on in Flash so far in the semester, so I have a feeling that's the direction I'll be going but do think it would be nice to get some more experience in Javascript, so if there is a way to do the things listed below in Javascript I would probably try to use Javascript before Flash-

So far the information I have to add is:

-Flood areas (4 zones): These would be shape tweens
-Impervious surfaces: This would be a layer you could turn on/off
-Population Data: This would be a layer you could turn on/off and roll over for more info
-Historical sites: This would be a layer you could turn on/off and roll over for more info
-Major ports: This would be a layer you could turn on/off

If you all think there is anything more I should add or would like for me to incorporate I would be more than happy to try and use it.

this is an example of how the tweens would work with a timeline and a few other layers that would have the on/off features that we used in the State wins for political party Map we did earlier in the semester.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiIXC1U8HNo

I do think that my timeline will be different and not just a changing text box in the left corner, but will involve a motion tween. There will be more colors to represent areas of high flood and low flood, this will also be done using the technique from the faux GIS lab with the transparency changing if the layers overlap with an increased transparency of 20% or so from zone-zone.

Lab 5 Finishing touches

Changed some stuff around from four to make it more themed, not too difficult of a lab, but regardless of how I would place my "hit" the images for my rollover glitch out.

Lab 6 Map of Virginia

Week 6 map Splash Screen!

This may have not been done so well, as the video frame is really small, but it's pretty interesting. Once you enter the actual map it's kind of plain and each state has a more detailed description of what's going on as far as the civil war.

Splash Screen Map of Civil War battles

Lab 4 Railroad Route Tween

This lab was rather difficult, I might enjoy looking at it in a couple of weeks when I haven't been tinkering with it for >10 hours :D

I did everything pretty basically because I just wanted everything to work.

Week Five Map

I had a pretty hard time finding a map where I actually liked the timeline. Turns out I'm a little picky about this aspect of interactive maps and all of the variables that add to the complexity surrounding the timeline.

I finally came across this AWESOME map. Not only is it incredibly interesting, but it's super interactive with the timeline being, probably (I think...), the MOST interactive part of the map.

Here is a map of refugee migrations around the world in EACH YEAR from 1975 to I believe 2012.

The timeline is really very cool in that there is a pause/play aspect (duh), but there are also clickable notepad icons that give you a run down of why that particular year had migration/refugee influxes. BUT WAIT... it gets even greater... you can click on ANY country in the world and get a number/directional arrows of what countries these refugees would flee to. When the country has been clicked you can click on any year of your liking and see the number of people who moved out and where as well as a small description in the upper left corner telling you the greater details of the year.

To get out of the individual country view was kind of annoying as it's this tiny little globe on the top right corner with almost identical colors to that of the focused map, but it is very well done, and when you're in the global view and click on any year there is a title description for a story behind the refugees within a particular state.

The only other complaint I have other than getting out of the global view being a bit difficult to find, is that the timeline although great and very well thought out, might be moving a little too quickly for me. I think this may be because the idea isn't really to look at the dot density aspect of the map played out (even though it looks cool) throughout the time played, but to get into clicking each year and seeing the different events that took place over the years.


Here it is:

The Refugee Project Interactive Timeline Map

Week Four Map

Hope everyone's enjoying their Spring Break! I found a map using tweens in a dissimilar manner than we did. This guy by the name of Aidan Samuel tracked all of his bike commutes for four months (total of 201!), and then transposed them all onto a 24 hour period.

Although I think this is pretty neat... It's a little boring for a rather large amount of the playtime... I think it would be helpful if he sped up the time/clock during work or sleep (what I presume to be the big chunks of "no biking").

Anyway here it is... enjoy!

https://vimeo.com/46738228

Week Three Map

This is an interactive map of Hydroelectric Energy (purple) across the world and Land Cover (green). You can change the transparency of the layers to see where they overlap.

http://mapmaker.education.nationalgeographic.com/?ar_a=1&b=1&ls=000000000000#/

Democratic Wins 1992-2008 Lab 3

How to Get to the Super Bowl

This interactive map was made to see which teams won during the playoffs for the Super Bowl in 2015.

Tsunami Damage on the Northern Shore of Banda Aceh, Indonesia

In June of 2004, it is clear that there is a defined coastline and although the rice fields look to be somewhat inundated, they are in good shape. Delineation in this photo is easily made between the coast, vegetation, and roads.

In December of 2004, we are seeing a much different image due to the Tsunami that hit the area. In just a matter of months much of the coastline has disappeared, as well as some of the roads. The rice fields are over-saturated and much of the vegetation along the coast has also disappeared.

Interactive Map

Interactive Map for Blog Post 1!

http://www.weather.com/weather/map/interactive/l/l

I chose this map because a lot of the people in the New England area will be effected by this huge storm that is thought to be historical!