Washington Caps 2014-2015 Season

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Cool Map

Weather Map

After spending time with Javascript this year I have a new respect for people who work with it. This interactive map has some nice features that can be toggled on and off to show cloud cover and rainfall. There is also a play button that allows the user to see the weather move across the US. 

Nepal Earthquake

Nepal Earthquake

This is satellite imagery of the 2015 Nepal Earthquake from Esri. The map scrolls over the land and compares the before and after of the earthquake. There are also dots over the locations of interests.

Javascript Map

Population Map

This map shows the population of each country around the world. The data for the map shows the current populations for the counties and the predicted future populations. There is rollover data that pops up similar to the maps made for class. 

Leaflet Heatmap

Leaflet Heatmap

This data is from another project that I am working on. The data is the percentage of Medicare Beneficiaries that have received an influenza vaccine for each county in the 2013-2014 season. The locations on the map are the counties with 50% or more of its population that receive an influenza vaccine. The map highlights locations that have high and low vaccination rates. 

Choropleth D3

Choropleth D3

Leaflet Map

Map With Points

Basic Map

Interactive Map With Zoom

2014 Ebola Epidemic

This is an interactive map of the 2014 Ebola epidemic that spread throughout the world. This is a nice map due to the simplicity of what is shown. The orange countries are the ones that had documented cases and also contains the number of deaths. 

Project Proposal

            For the final project I plan on creating a map of the Washington Capitals 2014-2015 season. The audience for this project will be fans of the Caps and people who are generally interested in hockey. Regardless of which team someone is rooting for, seeing how far the teams travel across North America provides perspective on how much these athletes are moving to get to the next game. The map should also appeal to sports fans because there are not that many quality sports maps available. For people that do not watch hockey, this map will have some fun elements from the sport to provide the audience with a hockey atmosphere.

            All 82 regular season games will be displayed in the shape of the seating sections in the stadium. There will be an upper and lower circle of the sections so that all of the games will be visible on the page at once. When the mouse clicks on each of the sections a pop-up will display the three stars of the game, the score of the game, and the location on a map where the game was played. A scoreboard of the wins, losses, and overtime losses will keep track of the team’s record throughout the season. One of the most iconic features of hockey is the siren that goes off when the home team scores and will be incorporated into the project. When the user clicks the continue button on the splash screen, the audio of the Caps goal siren will play.

            Due to the amount of time the class has spent in flash this project will more than likely be in flash as well. A splash screen similar to the one in lab 5 will be added to the beginning of the movie to provide an introduction to the features of the map. All of the 82 games will be buttons that are clickable to allow the user to see the stats of each game. The buttons will function similar to the lab 2 animation style. An optional play through of the entire season is also doable. The play button would start the movie at game one and the user can watch as the game counter on the scoreboard changes and the team jumps all over the place showing where the game is being played. The animation and the buttons from lab 4 would be the inspiration to the animation in this project. Instead of a linear timeline like what was in lab 4, the stadium sections will move clockwise in a circle as a timeline.

            The information that will be used in this project can be found on any sports website that covers hockey. This makes finding the stats about the players for each game easy to find and will save a lot of time. The designing of the layout of the map should take about a week to get all the elements arranged. Designing and programming each button will take time and should be accomplishable by the third week of April. 

D3 and GeoJSON

http://mason.gmu.edu/~tmarotta/GreyVA.html

Trains in the 1930s

With Splash Screen

Splash Screen

Civil War

This is a video about the Civil War that includes some clips of maps. The graphics on the map show the soldier movement and battles during the war. The visuals are well put together for the maps that are shown. 

Travel by Train in the 1930s

Shape Shifter

World War I

This map has a lot of shapes that move around as the animation plays. The shape that represents the movement of soldiers across the land morphs and changes. As the shapes move around there is also text to explain what is happening during the war to add context to the movement of the shapes.

Timeline Map

Nazi Camps

This map does a nice job of displaying information with the timeline running through history. The different levels of grey make it easy to identify where the important areas of the map are and the red dots are clear against the background as well. 

1996-2012 Democratic Presidential Election

Milky Way

Milky Way

This is an interactive map of the Milky Way Galaxy that allows the user to add features on top of the base image. The toggle buttons allow the user to put a grids up as a reference to where things are in the galaxy and the different constellations.

The Road to the Super Bowl

Flip Book Map

                       Link

This is an interactive map about the outbreaks of preventable diseases that the world has vaccines for. The forward arrows progresses from 2008 to 2010 to show the changes in outbreaks around the world. Each click of the arrow moves the timeline ahead one year and allows the viewer to see the change over time of the spread of diseases.

Two Images

The two satellite images show the before and after effects of a tsunami that hit the shores of Banda Aceh in Indonesia. The first image shows the land as it was in June of 2004 and the second image shows the land after the tsunami hit in December of 2004. The lines on the images show the roads and the coastline of the land to emphasize the change caused by the tsunami.

Interactive Map

   LEGOLAND


This is the interactive map for the LEGOLAND park in California. This is a great example of a map that allows users to click to see images of the different rides and places to see while inside the park. The map is designed to allow children to see all of the attractions and to navigate through the park with ease. It also provides parents with important information about the locations of the restaurants, hotels and shopping locations.