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Monday, March 24, 2008
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Super Tuesday 2008
Food Maps
I was listening to National Public Radio (NPR) the other afternoon driving home from GMU and I heard this interesting discussion about map links online for restaurants. The report began with the tale of a graphic designer in CA that loves taco-truck food. It goes that the guy had a little spiral notebook that he carried around with him with the time and location of the trucks in his area. Friends began calling for information and the graphic designed asked his wife (a cartographer) for help putting the information from his spiral notebook on-line. Lostacotrucks.com was born. Take a look, it's a great idea.
khj
khj
lab 10/final project work in progress
Lab 5 Review
Hip-Hip-Hooray! My scripting WORKS! After having disastrous results in lab 3, the scripting worked like a breeze. I like my map. There are a few things that I recognize it lacks: I wish my tanks could leave a trail, and the tanks of the Eleventh unit takes a drive through the black sea... But, all-in-all, I am counting this as a success. Do you like the tanks? I found them on google images. I have no idea if they are period accurate, but they are tanks and I thought they looked better than a red rectangle. I did run into a small hiccup when I added the unit number and grouped them. The background of the tank and unit identifier sometimes covers another tank. I am certain this would not be acceptable for PIXAR, but for MapsbyKathleen, it works.
3/13/08
Kathleen
3/13/08
Kathleen
Lab 3 Review
There is something wrong with my scripts. I find an error when I try to publish and haven't been able to resolve the issue. Thus, I cannot save as Html. I am hopeful that the snag is easily fixed. I like the map that I designed.
Timeline of Human Migration
Interesting Timeline, Nat'l Geographic
NE Superbowl
Blog Archive
About Kathleen
- Kathleen's_Maps
- George Mason University, Virginia
- This is my fourth semester at GMU in the M.S. Geographic and Cartographic program. I am enjoying remote sensing, GIS and map design. Thank you for reading my blog.
Let's go for Chinese food
Where is the Taco Truck?
Data Den and Amall Multiples
Well, I read the assignment. But I am not sure what I am supposed to say about it. It read a little like "Physics for Graphics". It was pretty technical with regard to size and pixels. I guess I thought design was all art and artistic license.
khj
khj
Aesthetics
What can I say... Do what the expert says. I thought the information about letter differentiation was interesting. And I liked the examples of how to lay out a word-brick of information. The example he gave of the survey results for the New York Times was really good. This information is applicable beyond cartography. It applies to any visual presentation.
khj
khj
Super Tuesday Participants
Super Tuesday 2008
Super Tuesday Map
Montana Policical Map 1
- http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/215-%E2%80%93-montana-the-gorgeous-mosaic/