I was just looking into some more data to add (eg national parks, bike routes) - I was wondering, has there been any talk of adding this scenic data to some sort of open map service like openstreetmap?
2009/9/20 Joe Lanman <[email protected]> > Thanks for that - I've attached a version I'm playing with > > I've smoothed and posterised the heatmap - as it was fairly low resolution > and looked a bit pixelly - this effect means we can make something much > higher resolution (eg for print) without it pixelising. > > apart from that I've just added a title, a gradient background > (globe-esque?) and a key.. what do people think? Right direction? When you > say a bit of fun, is this going to be publicly available? > > Joe > > > > 2009/9/20 Andrew Bailey <[email protected]> > >> As requested, a green to grey theme with a darker sea colour. I perfer >> the first version myself as large areas such as the sea mask are easier on >> the eye. >> >> I've chucked out all available formats in the software, sorry - no png. >> We've got ps, pdf, emf and ai. >> >> http://www.planetnomad.com/dump/Green_to_DGrey_Layout.pdf >> http://www.planetnomad.com/dump/DGreen_to_LGrey_Layout.pdf >> >> just change the extension to download the other files. >> >> I imagine there's further tweaks on the colour still to do but it's >> probably easier if suggestions include rgb values. I'll work on pinpointing >> some top 10 / bottom 10 and some city names. >> >> I think we've got to consider the poster as an asthetic bit of fun only - >> you shouldn't read too much into the results. >> >> Andy >> >> On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:37 +0100, "Joe Lanman" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'd be very happy to help out on this! >> >> I agree that green to gray could be a nicer colour theme - can we get a >> version like that? I can try messing with colour channels, but it would be >> easier to do it from source. >> >> On that note - it would be great to get the image as something other than >> pdf - a vector format like eps or high resolution bitmap (png) would be >> great. >> >> Just a general question - what is the end goal for this project? Eg. an A3 >> poster to sell on the MySociety site? Is it purely promotional (aesthetic), >> or more of a straight informatic (accurate and useful)? >> >> Joe >> >> >> 2009/9/18 Andrew Bailey <[email protected]> >> >> will do. >> >> On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:42 +0100, "Timothy Green" <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Great start. To agree with Tom, I think a colour scheme of grey to >> green >> > might work better in terms of readability, green of course being "hot" >> > and grey "not". The grid is a bit distracting and doesn't seem to add >> > anything. >> > >> > As you seem to suggest, I think photos around the edge, pointing to >> > various diverse scenic areas would work - as are a few major towns and >> > perhaps national parks (though maybe the point of SON is more a focus on >> > town prettiness than wilderness?) >> > >> > -t >> > >> > Tom Steinberg wrote: >> > > If I could suggest priorities they would be: >> > > >> > > 1. Finding a slightly nicer basic colour scale, from 'hot' to 'not', >> > > and a complementary sea colour. This is the most important decision >> > > for making the graphic sing I think. Quite a dark colour for the sea >> > > would be best, I feel. >> > > >> > > 2. A nice big title along the top >> > > >> > > 3. Overlaid place names, but not so many it blots out the information >> > > the map contains. >> > > >> > > Once it has those basic things, it might be 'done', but if it isn't, >> > > those are the basis for working out what optional extras to add. >> > > >> > > Joe - is this something you could help with, given your ninja logo >> skills? >> > > >> > > best, >> > > >> > > Tom >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mailing list [email protected] >> > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: >> > >> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list [email protected] >> Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: >> >> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> http://formd.net >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list [email protected] >> Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: >> >> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >> > > > > -- > > http://formd.net > -- http://formd.net
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