{"id":112,"date":"2011-07-06T15:19:21","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T15:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/?p=112"},"modified":"2011-07-06T15:19:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T15:19:21","slug":"a-tale-of-two-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/2011\/07\/06\/a-tale-of-two-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/2011\/07\/06\/a-tale-of-two-maps\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>One of the university researchers, Rich Treves, blogs in the field of map usability and has posted an article comparing Colin&#8217;s OpenDataMap with the universities existing map, designed a few years back by the late cartography team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/googleearthdesign.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/tale-of-two-maps.html\">http:\/\/googleearthdesign.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/tale-of-two-maps.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to point out that Colin built his map for fun, with no resources or training, so he shouldn&#8217;t feel bad it&#8217;s not as pretty as one made by award-winning professional cartographers!<\/p>\n<p>On a side note; I noticed yesterday that many university buildings have 3D models on Google Earth&#8230; I wonder if there&#8217;s a mashup we could do making a 3D data map?<\/p>\n<p>So, thanks for the ideas, Rich, but there&#8217;s nothing stopping you taking the data and making your own maps *grin*&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet One of the university researchers, Rich Treves, blogs in the field of map usability and has posted an article comparing Colin&#8217;s OpenDataMap with the universities existing map, designed a few years back by the late cartography team. http:\/\/googleearthdesign.blogspot.com\/2011\/06\/tale-of-two-maps.html It&#8217;s important to point out that Colin built his map for fun, with no resources or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}