When I started creative maps, I discussed with my colleague it would be good
to show learners what poetry there was about their area to try and get them
engaged with a range of creative inspiration and outlets. Behold I came across
this:
Poetry has been geographically mapped with Poetry Atlas, not as clean and
clear as the well presented HistoryView (Pin) those quill markers are just a bit
too overpowering. But the info windows etc are equally great and like history
pin it has accumulated quite a few writings about areas. They've even made a layar app or AR reality, as I would love to have ;o). They also to their credit make it really easy to explore their site searching location, browsing poems/ poets. Very Good.
This is a map of Sheffield's (uk) locations that breed, inspire creativity. Galleries, art book shops, craft shops, workshops, theatres.
It has a lovely clean simplicity to it that lets you focus in on the colours / numbers for the key and even though it is large you can fold away and pocket it. Great for a creative tourist. Might be limited with its geographic landmarks to contextualises where abouts these places are but with the again organised simple, alphabetised, postcodes, addresses and websites on the back to type into your gps enabled phone it recovers in its accessibility and functional level.
I made it into a google interactive map (see below) and you can switch between street view and the customised view and it works on a mobile so can be used for sat nav (at least for android, not tried iphone). Took a bit figure out map panes are the layers and that map rss feeds can be kml layers and not just georss layers. Also cant limit the zooming out, just kept trying but no cigar. At least it loads at the zoom level I wanted it view at and preserves viewpoint.
http://vism.ag/sheffieldcreativemap
Inspired by Laura Mansfield's manchester map. http://vism.ag/k
customised google map
quote interactivity.
the key to the map giving you more details of postcodes, addresses, website.
Wonderful manipulations in photoshop, go through the slides. It does challenge me to think, 'ok so he cut that out, masked over this, layered....' but very tidly done and wonderful to see. Below is one i had seen =, maybe by erik, who knows, but looked good. Face punched, face sucked.
