{"id":443,"date":"2016-02-14T20:01:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T01:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps13\/?p=41"},"modified":"2016-02-14T20:01:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T01:01:15","slug":"paper-map-project-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/2016\/02\/14\/paper-map-project-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Paper Map Project Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps13\/files\/2016\/02\/capus-map-kiosk.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps13\/files\/2016\/02\/capus-map-kiosk-169x300.png\" alt=\"campus map kiosk\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For my project, I will redesign the large campus map that is currently displayed on the information kiosk outside of the university admissions office.\u00a0 This map is essentially an enlarged reprint of the standard flat map displayed on the UR website (like the ones we looked at in class).\u00a0 With such a large space available, it doesn\u2019t make sense to use the same elements you might put on a small, handheld map.\u00a0 The list on the side is confusing, the numbered buildings look\u00a0cluttered and messy, and the colors are drab.\u00a0 On this new map, I will replace numbers in a list with labels on buildings, add color to the map, erase unnecessary data, and simplify the legend\/iconography so it is more\u00a0readable and user-friendly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my project, I will redesign the large campus map that is currently displayed on the information kiosk outside of the university admissions office.\u00a0 This map is essentially an enlarged reprint of the standard flat map displayed on the UR website (&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29107,29805],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignment-4","category-spring-2016","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2017,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/2017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/geovismaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}