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Finished 1989 Flash Map
Posted on February 10, 2009 | No CommentsI had to dig this out of the depths of my computer today, and a quick search showed that I never posted the final version. So here it is in... -
Soviet music
Posted on May 22, 2007 | No CommentsI’m looking for some good soviet music to use as a light background music to the flash timeline. Here are two good sites that catalog and preserve the history of... -
The MA is done, but the map is not….
Posted on May 16, 2007 | No CommentsI just turned in my last thing for the MA! I’m a Master! I do the commencement and walking and stuff tomorrow night. Well, I showed the Yahoo Map and... -
Making progress
Posted on May 11, 2007 | No CommentsI took out the audio from the intro because it just wasn’t working. Perhaps a voice recording about the fall of communism would be better. I worked on the timeline... -
How does the yahoo/flash map work…
Posted on May 11, 2007 | No CommentsThere’s a lot of tutorials out there, but here’s how I got it to work. The Plan Got what? Oh, well, basically it’s being able to use yahoo maps, flash,... -
xml, and lots of time.
Posted on May 5, 2007 | No CommentsBack again. Only two weeks left of school. I spent the past two days trying to work XML into the picture for the time line aspect. The thought was, if... -
Getting it to work.
Posted on April 26, 2007 | No CommentsI’m finally getting somewhere with the Yahoo/Flash map. The latest is always viewable at http://chnm.gmu.edu/1989/maps/yahoo.html. Tonight I worked on getting the title and description to show up nice. The description... -
The Continuing Saga of Map Making
Posted on April 24, 2007 | No CommentsSo, I’ve decided to use the yahoo/flash option because it looks better, and it’s a bit easier to implement. The biggest impediment is not having geocodes for each item in... -
I think I’ll Yahoo!
Posted on April 14, 2007 | No CommentsI did some more researching and playing around with the Yahoo and Flash options and I think this will be the better way. As an example of why, look at... -
To Google, or not to Google. That is the question.
Posted on April 9, 2007 | No CommentsSo, I am now in the stage where I decide how to plot the objects from the database onto a map. The question becomes, which map technology do I use....