Here is my final project. Buckle up sign too large. In retrospect I would have made a highway sign/post and I wish I had more time to polish map...but I had fun with this flash project! Motorcyclist moves/engine vroom (audio)...Enjoy!!
Monday
Baltimore Festival Of Maps
Rob and Robbie's Excellent Map Adventure
In celebration of my son's twentieth birthday along with my cartography (+ extra credit) interest, we traveled north to Baltimore this past Friday. After eating lunch in Cafe Gia, an eccentric and delicious eatery in the Little Italy neighborhood near the Inner Harbor, we navigated to the Walters Art Museum.
Upon our arrival at the Festival of Maps Exhibition, we spent the next three hours touring and admiring really great works of art that also happened to be maps. Due to it being a weekday, we were able to enjoy the rare and many spectacular maps in a relaxed manner. Some of the historical maps were quite extraordinary and deserved our close inspection. A few of my favorites included: John Smith's early map of Virginia (of course), Leonardo da Vinci's map of Florence, Italy, the Aztec Capital Tenochtitla map, an early map of Cairo, Egypt, and a map of one of Europe's early port cities.
Again, the historical map's artwork and detail were amazing, especially when considering the scale. For example, regarding the port city drawing that I referenced above, hundreds of tiny ships had to be meticulously sketched for just one map. I also appreciated the craftsmanship involved with the mosaic tile world map located on the second floor lobby wall. In addition, the Hubble images and the museum's other artwork(s) were pretty cool.
Although we didn't make it to the fourth level exhibition, we thoroughly enjoyed our recent visit to 'Charm City'.
Thursday
Lab 10 - Image overlays in Google Earth
I know....I know... I picked an easy map to overlay, but hey, I used to live in Colorado.....and my wife is ill, the teenagers are acting like teenagers and my cat is picking fights with the neighborhood fox....you get the picture.
Wednesday
Friday
Favorite Static Map
Almost forgot....I thought this was an interesting subject, plus I also liked the colors!
Thursday
Lab 8 - Google Earth
Here's my google earth link for placemarks, cruise path, etc.:
http://krieger.rob.googlepages.com/RobKriegerLab8_.kmz
http://krieger.rob.googlepages.com/RobKriegerLab8_.kmz
Geography Tool of the Future
Here is my geotool of the future.....not sure exactly what it does.Now, I have to figure out how to get my KMZ file (Lab8 placemarks) posted?
Wednesday
Lab 5 - Creating a "Faux-GIS"
Again, for some reason Color changed a little when I tested movie. I published as is....will try to figure out my color dilemma one of these days......Checkboxes should be on link below (hopefully).
New Link to Democratic Presidential Map:
Lab 3 & 4 Super Bowl Map
Here is the link to my map post (via my mason cluster account:)):
http://mason.gmu.edu/~wkrieger/
Lets hope it works...........
http://mason.gmu.edu/~wkrieger/
Lets hope it works...........
Thursday
Political Map
Here is my political map. I couldn't for the life of me get the colors to fill in the legend. Also, I'm not sure that the other colors are right. Flash........Grrrrrrrr.Wednesday
Lab 1 - The Devastation: Banda Aceh, Indonesia
Probably should of reversed order of above images, but the top one represents incredible damage incurred by Banda Aceh from the December 2004 tsunami.......2008 Election Map
Please click link below for NPR Interactive 2008 Election Map. This map was very informative with regard to state's primary/caucuses election data including dates of contest, presidential candidates and number of delegates in play.
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