links for 19 April 2006
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guidelines for making pretty interactive maps friendly and accessible
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why are these so compelling? Is it the joy of immediacy after so many years of slow, clunky websites? Or perhaps it is the pleasure of the fluid movement, with information overlaying the maps.
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The most frustrating thing in localized applications is when you can’t find the way to change the language it uses, to the one of your choice. Language and localisation (what (not) to do)
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more thoughts on language/localisation
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uses interactive timeline to present financial data. V. nice
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finally - an article about Taxonomy that I thought was interesting and useful to my work (clearly explains what, why, how etc.) Worth a read even if you’re eyes glaze over at the term.
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yep, I’m thinking about search again. Got any good ‘making search work well for users’ links I should be looking at?
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ooooh! I want Measure Map!!! (nice interactive timeline re: traffic stats)
3 Comments
leisa.reichelt on April 24th, 2006
thanks for the link Rachel. I started scanning it but it’s too long for me. Will have to print it out and read on a commute
leisa.reichelt on May 20th, 2006
hey Rachel. I ended up getting around to reading that New Yorker piece. Excellent.
I think there’s a whole blog post brewing around that. Thanks again for the link
Rachel Dixon on April 23rd, 2006
On the subject of digital presentation of maps, there’s a lovely article in this week’s New Yorker on the way in which Neverlost and GPS are changing the entire way people perceive geography and the map-reading experience, at: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060424fa_fact