Lab 10

This is supposed to be all the snowfall in Pennsylvania during 2015. It's on a color gradient from blue as the least amount to yellow, orange red, and black as the heaviest.

Lab 10

• http://mason.gmu.edu/~aaugstel/Lab10/Lab10

Final Project (Game of Thrones)

Blog 10

Game of Thrones

• http://quartermaester.info/

This is just an amazing map. The amount of time and detail put into this map from a book reader's standpoint let alone an aspiring map-maker is amazing. Every chapter in the series (there are A LOT of chapters) is given as a frame that can be gone through and there are so many character paths that needed to be plotted for this. The amount of knowledge of the series itself is impressive. Not to mention the map and pan and zoom qualities make this an awesome map I would have loved to attempt if I had more time.

Nepal Earthquake Before and After Map (Blog Post 9)

Before and After

• http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/swipe-see-nepal-and-after-earthquake-180955123/?no-ist

-> This map is very neat, because it was produced in a short amount of time, but also has a neat concept of a slider bar that goes between two imaages. A before and an after, it makes for a very crisp and cool transition. Just don't zoom out too much because you'll never find the picture again :O Uh-Oh

Blog 8

NBA 2011 Finals

• http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/06/11/sports/basketball/nba-shot-analysis.html?_r=0

This is an AWESOME map. The splash screens in the beginning of players faces tiled in the style of the map is really cool and go away once moused over. These are heat maps of shots of each team and then of each starting player on each team showing how many shots, from where on the floor, and how many points made. It's then shown as tiled and color coated. A really neat map though.

Labs 6,7,8,9

Lab6

• http://mason.gmu.edu/~aaugstel/Lab6/Lab6

Lab7 

• http://mason.gmu.edu/~aaugstel/Lab7/Lab7

Lab8

• http://mason.gmu.edu/~aaugstel/Lab8/Lab8

Lab9

• http://mason.gmu.edu/~aaugstel/Lab9/Lab9

Lab 5 (Update to Lab 4)

Map 7 (Panning and Zooming)

http://www.gameofthronesmap.org/

I have been waiting to use this map for a while. I am also going to use some elements of this map for my Final Project. It is a very detailed map of Westeros and Essos which are the two continents in HBO's hit series  Game of Thrones and George R.R. Martin's hit novel A Song of Ice and Fire. It has the ability to zoom in and see some basic geographic features and cities. As well, it allows for panning between Westeros and Essos.

Map 6 (Splash Screen)

http://www.amctv.com/TWD360/alexandria-tour/

This isn't necessarily a traditional map but a 3D view of the hit series The Walking Dead's geographical zone/neighborhood and surrounding area in the most recent season. It explores the area of Alexandria, Virginia. The splash screen is a dramatic introduction to the area.

Map 5 (Interactive Timeline)

http://www.pbs.org/kera/usmexicanwar/timeline_flash.html

This Timeline for this map is very informative. I particularly enjoy the date markers where the map stops to give an important piece of historical information that pertains to geographical concerns during the US and Mexican war. It starts with the background information of both countries and leads into the war.

Map 4 (Shape Tweens)

http://www.the-map-as-history.com/demos/tome12/12_03_founding_of_rome_downfall_empire.php

This Map is a little bit clunky, but it gets the job done showing the advancement of the Roman empire from a small area in Italy to the majority or Europe, part of the Middle East, and along the coastline of North Africa. Interestingly enough it also tracks the fall of the Roman empire when it was sacked by the Vandals.

Map 3 (CheckBoxes)

When we needed to find a map with check boxes I remembered always seeing check boxes for polls among other things during the Presidential elections. I found this map on the new york times website. It allows for us to experiment depending on what we value to make a prediction for what was the upcoming election.

Railroad Shape Tweening

Final Project Proposal

Game of Thrones will start its 5th season April 12th. There have been many battles throughout the series, specifically during the War of 5 Kings. The War of the 5 Kings takes place throughout the entirety of the show (in a manner of speaking), but more specifically in Seasons 2 and 3.


 http://gameofthrones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Known_World


 Thus for my final project I was planning on creating a detailed Game of Thrones War map. There are 27 battles during the War of 5 Kings. I was planning on also mapping the paths of important characters (the 5 kings, Arya and the Hound, the Mountain, etc). Infographics possibly for the important battles, or turning points.

The most prominent houses and their accompanying lands can be seen through this map which I plan to use for shape tweens throughout the timeline of the war. This can demonstrate how the war proceeded for each king. It will demonstrate the ebb and flow of the war which I think will be interesting.

I don't believe that anything has been done before to illustrate the motion and tides of the battles in the Game of Thrones world. Therefore I had to illustrate something similar to this concept with a World War 1 control of Europe map.

http://www.worldology.com/Europe/world_war_2_imap.htm

A few issues that could be concerning are digitizing a basemap. There has been talk that Westeros is just the United Kingdom upside down, so perhaps that might be an easier avenue. However it does not match up exactly with the generally well known maps of westeros and essos.

Presidential Elections

2015 NFL Postseason

This map is from weather.com, specifically from the area code for Fairfax, Virginia (22030). It is an animation that has past data of precipitation and the prediction for future rainfall in 5 minute increments. It can be played frame by frame or in a motion. Specifically the past and future buttons replicate similar actions and abilities to what we are doing in our Lab2.

SB49

From: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-most-tweeted-super-bowl-ever-lit-up-like-christmas-in-one-awesome-map-2015-02-02

This is a live feed of the hashtag SB49 during the game. The spikes occurred during the half-time show and at the end of the game during the Kearse reception and Butler interception. This was interesting because I was on twitter while this happened and twitter went crazy. This map also illustrates the denser population areas of the United States. I think this is really interesting because we can take real time social media hashtags through a trawler and put it into data.