Author Archives: Maggie Latimer

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Maps are so cool.

Hollywood Cemetery

Last year, Dr. Winiarski’s students created digital story projects based on unique graves in Richmond’s historic Hollywood Cemetery. This web mapping application allows for the videos to be embedded in the informative section on one side of the screen while … Continue reading

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A “bad” map

One of my classes recently walked around Hollywood Cemetery to study the graves.  The cemetery layout and landscaping is beautiful – it looks like a park, but it can be hard to navigate. On the paper map, only some of … Continue reading

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Blunder Map

Rizza, Andrew, Maggie BlunderMap . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ANSWER KEY: Westhampton Lake is now Westhampon Lake President’s Home is enlarged Bye bye B-School

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Large Campus Map

My map is a reworking of the large campus map on the information kiosk located outside the admissions office.  This map’s intended audience is new visitors to the University of Richmond.  To simplify the map, I deleted/adjusted unnecessarily complicated polygons … Continue reading

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My Map Progress . . .

    My map is a reworking of the large campus map that is displayed on the information kiosk outside of the admissions office. Much of my work has been simplifying polygons by deleting/rearranging vectors while still keeping the basic … Continue reading

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Paper Map Project Plan

For my project, I will redesign the large campus map that is currently displayed on the information kiosk outside of the university admissions office.  This map is essentially an enlarged reprint of the standard flat map displayed on the UR … Continue reading

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The Swiss Cheese Map Reflection

I think Shari Motro did a great job explaining her point about map visuals and what to include or exclude when creating a usable map.  In order to cleanly and efficiently display information, cartographers must have an element of style in their craft … Continue reading

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Million Dollar Homes

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Expensive Pets by County

 

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Why Am I Here?

              Maggie Latimer I am taking Maps and Geovisualization for several reasons: it is relevant to my major, it fits into my schedule, and I know the professor (one of them, at least) and … Continue reading

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