Wednesday 28 October 2009

Mapping stonehouse , or at least it looks like a map, doesn't it?



So we all had a good crack at mapping a certain subject on the area of stonehouse, was interesting to see how this turned out, and even though similar subjects had been mapped, its weird to see how everyone approaches this differently. Without a key to this map viewers, even me find it very hard to establish what is being represented, although im sure we could take a rough guess due to the nature of humans tending to visualise data in a standard way.

Me, Karla, Jon, Luke and Matt all have our subject representations compiled on this one singular map. It forms a very artistic view while providing visual representations of certain stonehouse attributes. So on this map the following are mapped:

KEY
  • Aura : Thin blue lines and dark red lines.
  • Noise pollution : Blue flares
  • Desirability : Green flares
  • Population density : Dots.
  • Population movement : Light red and purple lines.

After this map was conceived our group actually went to the stonehouse area. If we refer back to the map we weren't far wrong, and found that the area was quite typical and easy to judge that of a seaside city, even thought this are of Plymouth seems very run down and needs vast regeneration in parts.



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