Baseball Adoption History By Country


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Final project on Baseball Adoption History.

https://sites.google.com/site/rgodfreyflashstuff/system/app/pages/admin/attachments
https://9602b3bf-a-62cb3a1a-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/rgodfreyflashstuff/FINAL.swf

Hover-Over images - Banda Aceh, Indonesia




This technique shows the destruction that hit Banda Aceh, Indonesia on December 28, 2004 or 2 days after the a 9.3 earthquake (3rd largest ever recorded) created a tsunami in the Indian Ocean.  The first image was taken 3 months prior on June 23 when the city was still intact.  This Flash technique highlights the amazing tsunami destruction with a direct overlay.

Click once for the tsunami sound.

Google/Trimble Sketchup




This week I'm working with Google (soon to be Trimble) Sketchup and did my duplex.  After it's finished, you can click on "Share Model" and then upload it to the Trimble 3D Warehouse which will then submit it for review in Google Earth.  This is a neat way to build up your neighborhood in Google Earth for 3D modeling!

Google Building Maker

For Google Building Maker, I chose the Fort Sam Houston Library in Texas.  The A/C units on the top of the building took awhile.

Advanced Flash Techniques, Part B



Part B of the Advanced Flash Techniques where I created a virtual camera that pans into areas that have high parasite malaria risk on a global scale.  The Start and Stop buttons can start or stop the animation at any time in the loop!

Advanced Flash Techniques, Part A



Part A of the Advanced Flash Techniques where I created a button that will zoom in on the map, as well as 4 directional Pan arrows that were scripted.

Final Project Plan


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.

Operation Barbarossa Final Product

Operation Barbarossa with the finishing touches.  Obstacles encountered in this one included having to manually move all frames to the right in order to insert a blank frame to the left.  Then you have to drag the extra frame back to the end frame (-1 to the left) and then remove the extra frame that's leftover.  Other challenges included getting the autoplay to stop going where I added a stop at my Splash screen and a stop at the end of the Play button frames which did the trick.  If I had more time I would add more "Pop Ups" on a mouseover, I thought that was pretty nifty.

Operation Barberossa Pt 2




Operation Barbarossa but with Shape tweens and masking.  I also faded the front line to show that the Germans were weakened due to major resistance from the Russians.






Interactive map of Operation Barbarossa which was the 1941 German invasion of Russia!  This took a long time to create, mainly due to learning a lot of Photoshop graphical editing as well as having to redo some of the pathing since Flash doesn't seem to move tween paths when you select all the components.  Essentially what will happen is it will copy the first and last frame anchor points to wherever you move it to on the stage, but then you have to move the path again.  This is especially time consuming when you don't have your projected map handy anymore and have to reproject to ensure the pathing is still accurate!  In any case, I also added sounds.  Hitting Stop button will stop sounds as well.

Other Professional Effects for Maps


1.  A nice invasive species map from the Center for Bioenvironmental Research.  The user is able to interact with the map by clicking on the different buttons to move around, in, and out.
http://is.cbr.tulane.edu/PortalsAndPathways.html

2.  A video created by Visualize Early Washington that incorporates various 3D map elements.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKY45I9Bsho&feature=youtu.be

3.  An animated 2010 earthquake in Haiti.  The animation for the earthquake and the appearance of vibration illustrates the earthquake event so well.  The video also zooms into the most pertinent areas to show the details of the volunteered geographic information through Open Street Map as well as refugee tent camps in blue.
http://vimeo.com/9182869

4.  An Attack Map of Pearl Harbor that integrates MANY different techniques and effects to create an extremely professional product.  From the splash screen to the sound to the ability to pan and zoom, this really is outstanding!
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/ax/frameset.html

5.  This Women's Voting map has a really nice pre-made transition "popup" that comes out of the top of the when you click on a country.  It also possesses 3 maps in one where you can change what types of information you are looking at.
http://777voting.com/

6.  The side popout when double clicking a state is a nice feature with a ton of info in this Measuring of America Map.  Included is demographics, education, socioeconomic and it really integrates the map with the ranking pyramid well.
http://www.measureofamerica.org/maps/

7.  Nice video game map that lets the user add notes to any icon on the map for later use. Click on a zone and then an icon.  It has smooth hotspot transitions built in.
http://gw2cartographers.com/#/en/

8.  Nice Flash map with a very slick hoverover list of available, fresh ingredients when you click the state. It includes the season at the top as well as links within the state's information.
http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/seasonalcooking/farmtotable/seasonalingredientmap

Assignment 4 - Presidential Democratic Election Wins from 1988-2004






My flash animated transparency map for the national Democratic Wins by State from 1988-2004!

Interactive map example - Syria 3/11 - 4/12

http://www.cartografareilpresente.org/article789.html

This is a great interactive little Flash map (click on "Downloading" to make it full screen) that shows information up to April 2012 and gives very interesting interactive info such as religious breakdown, main centers of insurrection, where the Syrian refugee camps are in Turkey, the number of refugees and their geographic origin, and proximity of other countries such as the US' military bases in the region.

Assignment 1 - Static Map

Here is a new map from Census 2010 data that I created in Adobe Flash.