Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Final Project Proposal

For my final project, I am going to make a map about my trip to Hawaii from when I graduated high school.  I selected this as my topic because it’s something that is personal to me; I loved Hawaii and it was special to me because it was my present from my parents to me!  The island that we went to was Maui.  While we were there we saw a lot! We drove up the road to Hana (which if you get car sick, be ready!). we also saw the ocean of course, a luau, natives cliff diving, my dad and I went snorkeling and saw huge sea turtles, but not much dolphins, which I was sad about.

The audience of my map would be anyone who wants to travel to Hawaii, travel agencies could use them, or anyone who just wants to view it! The type of visualization that I am envisioning for this map is maybe some panning and zooming, rollover buttons/ pictures.

Data sources: 
An example that I found that Professor showed in class was this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mv0uzw2a1hz5vnz/Finalproject4.swf  someone did a rollover map where you click on the images and it takes you to a map and you can rollover the words/pictures. I’m going to go somewhat in that direction but I want to add some pictures of what I saw and that we took when we were there to add a personal touch.  http://www.hawaiivtmaps.com/bigislandCMI/index6.html  : this site shows an interactive map where you can click on the island and it directs you to what’s on that island. http://www.mauijoes.com/mauijoeslogos/mp_maui.jpg : this link is of the type of style that I’m aiming for.

My schedule:
1)     Get the basics started such as the base map
2)    Design- pictures and such
3)    Add the rollover buttons
4)    I’ll see where I am when I get to this point

  Some obstacles that I see happening are scripting, I’ve had some trouble with it for a few of my maps and I definitely can tell that it is going to be a problem when I get to that.  I’m thinking that I will get the image of Maui from Google Earth, so hopefully everything goes smoothly! 

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