For my final project, I am going to do the history of baseball and its global adoption nationwide over time. I plan to design this very similar to historic maps that depict how an empire has geographically spread throughout time. So there will be a timeline incorporated as the map pans and zooms to different scales to tell its story.
For a majority of the project I think the map will be focused on the United States so I will have to incorporate more detail at this larger scale and then will zoom back out as other countries come into play.
Finding data regarding origin is easy to find :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_baseball_outside_the_United_States , but how to change each boundary and at what rate could be an issue.
I found some data on Little League regions which is probably what my final map should look like so it's a start:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Little_League_Baseball_Map.png
The end product should look like the Maps of War series:
http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/imperial-history.html
As each country is triggered on the timeline, the map will simultaneously update if there are multiple countries that overlap adoption times.
My estimated planned time schedule will look like:
1) In a week, complete research.
2) Mid April, finish maps at different zoom levels and add base content.
3) End of April, Present to class for feedback
4) Continue adding new content until it's finished up to the end of the semester.
