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.