Final Project: My Costa Rica Storymap

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3 Responses to "Final Project: My Costa Rica Storymap"

Joy Malonza says:

April 19, 2016 at 11:12 am

Your story map is great! It’s neat and informative while still being entertaining. One suggestion I would have is perhaps a zoom out option to allow viewers to see the map of Costa Rica as a whole and see the points from a zoomed out point so that there is context instead of seeing the points in an isolated close up. But I think your map looks great nonetheless!
Ian G. says:

April 19, 2016 at 11:17 am

1. Yes, the story of this map is very clear. Right off the bat I could tell that you were telling the timeline of your time spent studying abroad in Costa Rica. It is good that you clearly laid this out at the beginning.
2. The map is very easy to see and navigate around, so I definitely think you used the right projection and selected the right color scheme and display.
3. Yes, I think that the right level of generalization is used because the map starts at a zoomed out level, but as you move forward in the timeline is zooms in to allow you to see more detail for the individual locations covered on the map.
4. Yes, the symbology is clear. I can defintly tell looking at the map that each of the symbols represents a place you visited. One thing you could do could be maybe to differentiate the symbols according to what is located there, like having a plane for the airport or coffee beans for a coffee beanery, but this isn’t necessary just a suggestion!
5. The data seems to just be the coordinate location, so I would say that yes the data matches the symbols because the symbols just show points on the map.
6. The text is all easy to read, it is easy to tell the difference between the title and the body and the captions.
7. The figure-ground organization was good. One suggestion is that maybe on the opening slide hide all the symbols if possible on the map in order to the opening slide is not as cluttered and you can more clearly see the country of Costa Rica and the borders and such. Also, I really like the cutout map at the top left to show the zoomed out version of where you are at each point.
8. Yes, the visual hierarchy is very good. I don’t think the text is overwhelming and the story portion is not distracting enough that it takes away from the map at all.
9. I can’t think of anything big that you need to add to the map, this is a great map with some really cool features.
Justin Madron says:

April 19, 2016 at 4:16 pm

Marissa,

Very cool! Extra points for using the openstreetmap basemap, it works very well with the pictures and adds some color. A couple of things…

-Could you make the background of your slides a dark grey instead of white? I think this would help make your slides more visible.
– I would encourage you to see if you can get into the CSS and style something just for practice. Learning the basics of styling in CSS will look really good on your resume.

Great job!

-Justin

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