Actualy, to contradict myself, I do think those contours are pretty cool, too :) Would be nice to see the same data with different smoothness levels of those contours.
best, Tom 2009/9/22 Tom Steinberg <[email protected]> > Hi Joe, > > I like your choice of land colours, from previous experience we know that > choosing good contour colours is a nightmare! > > Remember the map is going to be really big and high resolution. This means > that I think that squares (not pixels) with sharp sides will actually look > quite good. > > Other things to say are: > > 1. The map should fill up much more of the page, I feel. > > 2. The sea should still be darker, IMO. Even black, possibly. > > 3. I think the typography needs to be ultra modern, with no background box > for the key or the title. > > For a title, how about something a little cold and businesslike: > > "A Crowdsourced Scenicness Map of Great Britain: 1,148,009 votes on the > scenicness of 191,568 different photos, each taken in a unique 1-by-1 > kilometre square" > > "Keep improving this map - Play at scenic.mysociety.org" > > I'm actually not even sure it needs any key, necessarily (mapping herecy, I > know, but it might make the point about it not being scientific). > > best, > > Tom > > > > > > > 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list [email protected] >> Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: >> >> https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public >> > >
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