Map 10: Light Map

Although this is nothing like what we have made in class, I really enjoy this interactive map. I've always liked light maps. I think they're very beautiful. This map allows you to look at most big cities throughout the world and allows you to pick a time frame. The image below is of Manhattan.

Map 9: Earthquake in Nepal

The New York Times released an article with 7 maps displaying the effects of the earthquake that occurred April 25th. The map below is a static map that shows the areas with the most deaths along with epicenter (labelled and represented by the target) and aftershocks (the small red dots). Other maps illustrate the estimated destruction, map the route taken to save hikers and campers on Everest, and measure the magnitude of the aftershocks by region.

Map 8: 2011 Crime Rates map

The map below is a JavaScript map that shows 2011 crime rates. I found it on a website that assists people with creating JavaScript maps. It allows the viewer to switch between violence, rape, and murder crimes with smooth transitioning.

Lab 8: Census Populations by City 1980-2010 Map

Here is the link to my lab 8 Leaflet map.

Map 2: Ebola Timeline

This map shows the spread of Ebola over time. It uses play and pause buttons (the pause replaces the play button once you press it) and also has the option of clicking on a section of the timeline to skip.

Map 7: Interactive Metro Rail Map

Above is a map of the DC Metro. It allows you to zoom in and out to better read the map.

Lab 4: Tweens

'Below is my (extremely late) tweens map. Unfortunately I could not find my previous lab instructions and could not remember how to create the buttons, but I figured it's better than a zero.

Final Project Proposal

When I was originally trying to figure out what I wanted to do for my final project I was looking into creating a map that has something to do with Pinterest, since I am an avid "pinner." But while googling "pinterest maps" and "pinterest data," I found that Pinterest has boards called "Place Boards" (https://www.pinterest.com/places/examples/). This helped inspire me to pick my topic.

I recently moved to Florida this past summer, and ever since then my family and I have been exploring everything the area has to offer (which is a lot). My idea is to translate all these things into a Pinterest inspired map. It would be similar to the maps on the Pinterest website in that things would be “pinned” on the map. The user would be able to click these pins, see a picture and description of what it is, and have a website link to explore more. These pins would be sorted into categories like restaurants, entertainment, parks, etc. These categories could be clicked on and off to prevent the map from being too cluttered or to assist the user in finding something specific.

The map would encompass the Port Canaveral to Melbourne strip of the coast, including the beach side barrier islands like Cocoa and Satellite Beach. The map would start at a by showing the entire area, but then the user could click which part of the map it would like to focus on and then it would zoom in closer so that the pins would show.

I would most likely obtain my imagery from a source such as OpenStreetMap since it already has the streets on it so it would be easier to drop an exact pin location on it. My data and information about the location would most likely be obtained on the actually website of the place, and I would personally select what locations and things I would pin on the map.

An issue that I could see arising would be that the range of the map is too large. I haven’t chosen exactly what things I would like to include on the map so I can still scale the project back and ensure that I don’t take on more than I can handle in the few weeks we have to work on this.