Thanks for all the suggestions. In the end I did go with prezi. They have a bug on Snow Leopard (or rather flash does) but there's a workaround, I think that was the issue I was having not the size of the images. If you're interested you can take a look at it at the following URL, it probably won't make too much sense though without my narration:
http://prezi.com/t23bcmvwnxqm/ The title was chosen in a bit of a rush, rather than focussing on "why", the presentation actually concentrates on the various ways in which I track my location from day-to-day, something I've been doing (through mapme.at at least) for 2.5 years. I've actually given this talk 3 times now, it was most well received at the geomob event in London on Thursday (the clock got applause!) I think if I give it again though I'll probably start from scratch and aim at answering the "why" question more thoroughly (so for anyone that is organising a certain geo-conference, I would be intending to give a fresh presentation there!) Again thanks for the suggestions for tools. I think I can recommend prezi.com, it would be great if they could build in some native support for maps though I imagine it's not something they'd be focussing on. John On 13 Oct 2009, at 01:26, Andrew Turner wrote: > Hey John - too bad about Prezi. I've been meaning to give it a try > with that idea in mind. > > I've done presentations for other people in Google Earth. So there was > a KML file tour that flew to different locations and showed event > markers and photos (showing the use of mobile devices in events and > disaster reporting). It worked quite well, make a set of videos to run > in the slides of the presentation with the KML source file to share > with others. > > For maps you could use an Image Overlays and Popup balloons in the KML. > > Andrew > > On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 1:39 PM, John McKerrell <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all >> >> I'm giving a presentation in a month's time. I was originally intending to >> use prezi.com and wanted to show a map of the world which I could zoom in >> and out of to show detail and tell stories about various places. Prezi was >> actually the inspiration for me using that format. Unfortunately I'm not >> having much luck with their site, not sure if my images are too big or I'm >> scaling things out too much but it's just not working well. >> >> So, I'm wondering if there's anything else you can suggest. I guess I have >> two main options, either using a projected map or using a spinny globe. I'm >> guessing that Google Earth could do the job but if there's anything more >> appropriate I'd be glad to hear about it. I'd like to be able to display >> text and photos at each location. Ideally I'll be able to pre-cache tiles >> (oh yes, I'd like it to display my own map tiles if possible) and it'll all >> work nicely and smoothly. Also the ability to share it in some way would be >> good though I imagine a movie would suffice. I'd rather not have to start >> coding something up so that I can spend more time on the presentation and >> less on the tools! >> >> Appreciate any suggestions you may have, >> >> John >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Geowanking mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org >> > > > > -- > Andrew Turner > mobile: 248.982.3609 > [email protected] > http://highearthorbit.com > > http://geocommons.com Helping build the Geospatial Web > Introduction to Neogeography - http://oreilly.com/catalog/neogeography _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
