I have a well-documented affinity for interactive maps, but usually make them through third party services. This one required significantly more work on the back-end.
OK, here’s the experiment.
Rosie and I are embarking on a roadtrip tomorrow after I get off work. We’ll be driving down to New Orleans, Louisiana and back between Dec. 30, 2010 and Jan. 8, 2011. Our trajectory will look something like this, starting in Springfield, MA and headed to:
→ My parents’ [...]
The folks over at MassLive have a pretty cool user-generated map of snowfall in the Pioneer Valley going on as I write this post, allowing local residents to post their observations about weather conditions on an embedded Google map.
I hopped on to post my own findings [...]
I think I’ve made it abundantly clear that I really love maps.
Being someone with no natural sense of direction or mathematical savvy, I like maps both as a navigation tool and as a tool for data visualization. I also think they’re playing an ever-increasing role in local news coverage.
Because context [...]
My most recent project for MassLive.com, a map of Halloween events in the Pioneer Valley, is now live.
This is pretty much identical to the fireworks map I helped out with this summer. I’m a big fan of the Google Maps API and what it offers news [...]
Last week I helped the fine folks over at MassLive put together a map of all the fireworks displays in the Pioneer Valley on and around July 4.
I compiled all the data and threw it on a spreadsheet with some very basic HTML, and then, from my understanding, MassLive put it through [...]
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