Map Review

February 11-15, Weekly Map Design Review
These two maps are good examples of strong map image design for the web. I have included an example of a type of simple animation that clearly and effectively shows the physical dynamic being modeled. This is contrasted witha static web-map which could have used web-animation but did not. In the first map, the animation runs for a full 10 frames of sequential motion and then repeats upon use of a button. This example illustrates how physical principles can be geographically portrayed with a legend, title, and area map that conveys information at a glance, either frozen statically or in motion. The other static map image uses the same geographic representation, but spells the numbers out in Fahrenheit , with the aid of additional colors to convey temperature extremes. Standard colors used for hot and cold are red and blue, with certain conventional variations from the color tool palette.