Dragon’s Lair Cartography

This is my final project for GGS 411 offered at George Mason University.  It is a jump from the labs because it is done in Action Script 3 as opposed to Action Script 2 as the Flash labs are.  This map includes scene navigation as well as timeline controls and roll over effects.  It is a combination of a couple of labs.  The data presented in the MLS map are the teams playing in MLS each season of its existence including the current 2013 season.  The other map is a map of data concerning the senior United States Men's and Women's National Soccer Teams.  The world cups that the teams have been as well as the Olympics with major finishes.  The last category of data on the second map are some of the major results the US Men's National Team has managed over the years.

http://measureofamerica.org/maps/?area=States&race=All&sex=All&year=Year2010&index=HD%20Index

This is a splash screened map that presents various measures of the United States.  The interface is easy to use and understand.  In addition, the data presetned is interesting and varied over a wide range of categories.

http://maps.nationalgeographic.com/map-machine#s=r&c=43.74999999999998, -99.71000000000001&z=4

This is map that can be switched into 3D view and allows you to explore the world map in 3D and its is pretty intersting because its done with Bing 3D Maps. 

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/chantilly/maps/chantilly-animated-map.html

This is a map of the Battle of Chantilly that uses motion tweens to show the movements of various regiments invovled in the battle which occured after 2nd Bull Run as Longstreet with Jackson leading his front attempted to cut off the Union Army's retreat toward Washtington.

http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/antietam/maps/antietam-animated-map.html

This is an interactive map that has splash screens that show before maps involving shape tweens are shown. Then you can click the explore button on the right side of the user interface and view an interactive map that tells about different parts of the battlefield when their icon is clicked on.

http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-map-viewer.html

This is an interactive world map that pans and zooms around the world.  In addition, it has roll over effects that indicate that the coutnry which has just changed can be selected to view its interactive country map.

http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/atlas/obesityrisk/51/atlas.html

This is an intersting map of diabetes in the stae of Vriginia to the right of the map are shapes that move as well as change color as time moves.  Each of the cirlces is graduated based on the population of the coutny the represtent.  In addition, they ahve roll over effects that highlight them on the other chart as well as on the map nad provides a text box with information on that county.

http://www.map.harvard.edu/

This is an interactive map of the Harvard University campus.  That has allows viewers to turn layers on and off.  In addtion it has panning and zooming funcitons.  It is an interseting use of aerial photography to overlay the original base map but it is aligned so that the other layers are still in the right place when they are turned on.

First pre and post tsunami images were lined up as much as possible with the pre layed on top of the post then made translucent.  It was then brought back up to full and the coastlines and major roads traced.  These were then imported into Flash.  The images were left as they were, but the preimage was transfromed into a button and the phases of the button were then edited.  In the button phase editing the post image was turned into a roll over effect of the preimage button.  The result is above.  the devestation caused by the December 2004 Tsunami is incredibly apparent and large scale.