Hi Joe, I'll do a grey scale tonight. I've still got to create a layer marking top / bottom list - if i make a rough one you can work from that can't you? It'll be just used a reference for you. And major cities... What format was most usable? pdf?
I would support the loss of the key. It's not scientific. :-) On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:59 +0100, "Joe Lanman" <[email protected]> wrote: Glad you like the direction, can't really claim the colours - theyre based on what I got from Andrew. Andrew - Sorry to be a pain, but could I get the pix-map one more time, but with the range from black to white? (Doesn't matter which is which) If I had that I could really fine-tune the colours. I'm not sure about losing the key - I see your point about the 'scientificness' or otherwise, but the data does show something, and without a key there's nothing to show what means what. On Francis' naming point - should 'Great Britain' include Northern Ireland? Or is that wrong? I'll play with the design based on your feedback Tom, and send some more designs to the list. Any ideas on what other info to add? Some major cities? I've been looking for vector maps of national parks but no joy - I thought they might be nice to add. Joe 2009/9/22 Tom Steinberg <[1][email protected]> 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 <[2][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 [3]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 <[4][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 <[5][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. [6]http://www.planetnomad.com/dump/Green_to_DGrey_Layout.pdf [7]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" <[8][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 <[9][email protected]> will do. On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:42 +0100, "Timothy Green" <[10][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 [11][email protected] > Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: > [12]https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/dev elopers-public _______________________________________________ Mailing list [13][email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: [14]https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/dev elopers-public -- [15]http://formd.net _______________________________________________ Mailing list [16][email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: [17]https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/ developers-public -- [18]http://formd.net _______________________________________________ Mailing list [19][email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: [20]https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/ developers-public _______________________________________________ Mailing list [21][email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: [22]https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/ developers-public -- [23]http://formd.net References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. http://scenic.mysociety.org/ 4. mailto:[email protected] 5. mailto:[email protected] 6. http://www.planetnomad.com/dump/Green_to_DGrey_Layout.pdf 7. http://www.planetnomad.com/dump/DGreen_to_LGrey_Layout.pdf 8. mailto:[email protected] 9. mailto:[email protected] 10. mailto:[email protected] 11. mailto:[email protected] 12. https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public 13. mailto:[email protected] 14. https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public 15. http://formd.net/ 16. mailto:[email protected] 17. https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public 18. http://formd.net/ 19. mailto:[email protected] 20. https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public 21. mailto:[email protected] 22. https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public 23. http://formd.net/
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