Google Maps Now Mashable : Google has made it easier to create customized maps with a new MyMaps feature (Googleplex, 2004 Presidential election for example). Via
Interactive Visualization and Navigation using the Hyperbolic Space : http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~walter/h2vis/
Google Earth Hacks blog has a download, which overlays the map graphic (respliced with the 90° fix) atop the Australian landmass, so you can see 'Portuguese explorer Christopher de Mendonca led a small fleet into Botany Bay in 1522, more than 200 years ahead of Captain Cook, and ahead of Dutch explorers as well'. Via
Workingwith Server-side Image Maps : http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/hrosenba/www/Demo/Demo12.html
(Project Gutenberg eBook) Prince Henry the Navigator : http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18757/18757-h/18757-h.htm the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D
Putting a map on the map
Initial impressions of World Of Warcraft : http://www.blackgate.net/blog/index.php/initial-impressions-of-world-of-warcraft/
ALL ABOUT 2012 : http://www.greatdreams.com/2012.htm
"You were born an original. Don't die a copy." - John Mason
"It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop." - Confucius
"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem." - David Carradine Via
"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." - John Ruskin
"The scary fact is that many of our dreams have come true." - Charles Eames Via
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Using the map format to introduce our charity
Hi
I work at the housing and homelessness charity Shelter in the UK, and I'm currently looking at different ideas on how to produce an introductory leaflet to explain the work that our organisation www.shelter.org.uk does, in a format that is new or interesting and is more likely to be kept rather than end up being read once and then discarded.
One idea that our design team has proposed is to create a map of a virtual town or neighbourhood, showing the different centres and services we have, info about the people we help, and some of the staff, along with other ways to get involved (eg: an athletics track annotated with information about how to do sponsored runs in aid of Shelter). The style that they proposed was similar to that of theme park guides, though obviously the main difference would be that they are actually geographical guides rather than a thematic map.
I was wondering whether you knew of any organisations / companies that had produced anything similar, and if so whether you could point me in the right direction, as I'd be really interesting in seeing anyone else's approaches.
Many thanks
Ben
Ben McNaught
Direct Marketing Manager
Shelter
0844 515 2074
www.shelter.org.uk
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