GGS 411 Final Map

www.seansawesomemap.com

Weekly Blog Post 10

Chose this map because I am trying to travel more starting the the USA and this has a lot of the place I want to go see. I am pretty sure this used Java to create it.
http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/trips/americas-best-adventures/map/

GGS 411 Weekly Map 9

Map of the Nepal earthquake from BBC, big fan of BBC content. The first map specifically is nice thanks to the zoom up of the epicenter.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32479909

Weekly Blog Post 8

Java map is halfway down the page
http://newsignature.github.io/us-map/

Weekly Blog Post 7

Make sure you "allow" the map to run the application when you load the page. Interactive zooming map of crime in the NOVA area.
http://www.spotcrime.com/#University%20Dr%20at%20Sager%20Ave%2C%20Fairfax%2C%20VA%2022030%2C%20USA

Weekly Blog Post 6

Although complex, this map utilizes a splash screen in which you need to enter an address to get to the map.
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/gis/DMV/Default.aspx

Weekly Map 5

Map of USA History with a interactive timeline.
http://www.animatedatlas.com/movie.html

Weekly Map Post 4

Shape Tween Map.
http://www.pbs.org/kpbs/theborder/history/morphingmap.html

Weekly Blog Post 3

Map of Fairfax County, click on the layers button in the top right corner to bring up layer check boxes.
http://fairfaxcountygis.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=0612f9deb6bb4f0a9fa5cdce0cc75144

Weekly Lab Post 2

History map that uses buttons to function through time.
http://www.timemaps.com/history

Weekly Lab Post 1(REDO)

Interactive map of global outbreaks!
http://outbreaks.globalincidentmap.com/

GGS 411 Lab 10

mason.gmu.edu/~smcgowa2/ Link to my index file that has all my labs.

GGS 411 Lab 9

http://mason.gmu.edu/~smcgowa2/
Link to lab 9

GGS 411 Lab 8

Here is a link to my Lab 8. It is an idex file that has all my html labs.
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smcgowa2/

GGS 411: Lab 7

mason.gmu.edu/~smcgowa2
Click on the link that says Lab 7 on the page above

GGS 411: Final Map Proposal

I've decided that I would like to add onto my map from previous cartography class, GGS 310. For this map, I found the 50 largest colleges in the country and mapped them across the United States. There were a couple things I didn't like about the map, but if I recreate it using Flash, I will be able to make a much better version of this map.

My vision of what this map will be is as follows: I want a map of the United States in which you can individually select each state. Doing so will zoom into the state. This now central state to the viewer will see 5 college logos mapped out throughout(they will be the 5 largest in the state). You can now click on each college logo to learn about the institution(enrollment, type of school, facts, conferences, sports etc.)

The reason I chose this idea was because I really didn't like my 310 map and I would like to make it better. Another purpose of this map will be to help in decision making process of what school you may want to go to as an upcoming college student. The map will give that specific viewer plenty of information including location. The audience will be anyone aspiring to go to a college or anyone who just wants to learn about some teams in the NCAA tournament.

Visualization will be somewhat mixed. Most will be similar to our most recent lab in which clicking an object will take you to another page(clicking a college logo will take you to a different page with information on the college). I will have mouse overs on both the states and the college logos, however these will most likely just be the names. Finally, I would like to add a a zoom in function which I have seen before, but never used. By clicking a state, it would be cool to just zoom into that state until the state is centered as appose to it just changing to a picture of the state.

Data source has not been acquired, but the data will be easy to obtain. Enrollment for schools are public and a quick Google search will tell me the top 5 colleges in each state.

I have two main concerns. The first is the data for 2 of our states. Both Alaska and Hawaii do not have sufficient data as most of there schools are either very small or satellite schools from larger universities in different states. I may decide to remove the two from the map. The other concern of mine will be time. If I do 50 states and 5 schools per state, it will be a lot to do on Adobe Flash and I am worried I will run out of time.

http://www.univsource.com/region.htm

GGS 411 Lab 6

Lab 6 Link to Lab 6, once on the page click the link "GGS 411 Lab 6" to go to the lab.

GGS 411 Lab 5

GGS 411 Lab 4 - Tweens

GGS 411 Lab 3

GGS 411 Lab 2

GGS 411 Lab 1 - Banda Aceh, Indonesia

What we have here are two maps of the city Banda Aceh. Map one shows a satellite image of a northern portion of the city prior to the large 9.1-9.3 earthquake that struck the Indian Ocean. Using the paint brush tool, I highlighted major features of the city including coastline, roads and shrubbery that was in the water. Upon completion, I used the same paint layer and overlapped it on top of a satellite image of the same area that was taken on in December of that year which was after the earthquake and tsunami occurred. The outcome is quite remarkable and can clearly be define by the second image. It is important to note that satellite images are very difficult to replicate perfectly; with that in mind I decided to try and align the coastline of the two images as best as I could as I believe that the decay of the coastlines is the main feature that needs to be addressed by this map. Subsequently, some of the roads and shrubberies were off a little.

GGS 411: Interactive Map Post

http://outbreaks.globalincidentmap.com/

SEPERATION POST

This post marks the separation between pots from class GGS 310 and GGS 411