Geographic Information Systems
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I’m going to corral the GIS related discussions back into this forum. When I write about GIS at Think New Orleans, I’ll link to this forum as the pace to discuss GIS.
This way, our discussion can attract more interest and more participation. It also frees me from the task of coordinating all the email.
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Alan,
I have begun creating addresses files in Excel from my neighborhood maps. Unfortunately I do not have an understanding or access to many of the programs that I read about on your blog. I just wanted you to know that our project is moving forward. I am working with UNC at Chapel Hill which is doing a survey similar to Dr. Jett’s.
David Welch
David
We need to get together again. This project is taking shape. Tom Nehrbas, Kathrine Cargo and Jennifer Farwell are making headway on a GIS driven housing survey for Mid-City.
Alan
Alan,
I want to learn more about what is can be done. I don’t know what to bring or what to expect. I am currently moving addresses from my maps to Excel. My efforts may be misguided but it is an important element to get things going.
David
Alan, Andrew, Jeanette
I just uploaded a screen shot of the map to send to the reporter. So they can have something for the print edition. Please review and let me know if you would like something different. They will publish link to maps.thinknola.com
Goes to press tuesday / tomorrow.
1. Taylor’s 1924 map seemed to be a bit of an issue than I originally imagined.
If we leave the layer out of this demo, I would prefer a satellite / hybrid default basemap.
Or keep it in and return to the detail view from Andrew’s original design.
2. Photo credits are essential. If the flickr photos link to their source in regional.modernism (both integrated in the map and on the side bar) the credits will roll.
thank you!
Jeannette
I’ve always found this article form Microsoft, of all places, on web usability to be a helpful when thinking about web design. It’s an old article that is still valid today, even with all the Ajaxy / Scripty wonderment of Web 2.0. The idea is that, unlike old UIs that are mainly deductive, a collection of widgets and you click the widgets to see what they do, web UIs are inductive, or basically, a page equates to a task.
Inductive User Interface Design.
This probably applies more to the email list manager I’ve developing, or in the longer run, the presentation designer interface for our mapping application. Are we still calling it MapSquared?
Francine - I can look at improving the quality of the 1924 map at zoomed-out levels. I’m also adding in the appropriate Flickr links in the page sidebar as well as into the markers themselves.
David - have you met up yet with Alan? It sounds like you’re going the right direction, using the appropriate tool for the job (e.g. Excel). The next steps will be to easily share that via a format like KML to visualize on a map.