Week 14: Google Maps

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I decided to make a map for students who end up living on the San Francisco campus. When I first lived on campus, my freshmen year, I did not know where the closet stores where, or what was the best way to get there. I wanted to show new incoming students who would live on campus some of the sites that are around and the different options for transportation. I found it best that for walking distance I would stick to one way of getting there so it wouldn't confuse the viewer. Over the years I found ways to make trips faster. I like that I was able to use google maps to illustrate them, google maps has amazing details and can show you different angles so you can see it better. Google maps has great images, and details, it is really helpful for projects like this one where you want to plan trips.

The difference between google maps and a timeline is that in google maps you plan trips, and illustrate the different ways you can get there. There are also bus icons and restaurants as well as other sites icons that are in the area. Google maps as well as most maps focus on direction and sites, not really time. A Timeline, is a timeline that you tell a story by which you are addressing time. You can show where you were and what time, but there is no map to show that. There are other ways you can show where or how to get there with images and a good detail description, but it would take long for you to make a time map using one or the other.