Interactive Strip Maps
Linear strip maps stimulate got a long history. One non bad example is John Ogilby's 1675 Britannia Atlas (one panel of which is pictured on the right). Ogilby's atlas is presented inwards a serial of scrolls. Each scroll depicts but 1 journeying - from 1 English linguistic communication town to some other goal town.
Strip maps are even in addition to thus real pop today, specially inwards transit maps. Most metro trains around the basis characteristic strip maps, representing the metro road every bit 1 vertical business from a lastly metro station at 1 terminate to the other lastly at the other, amongst all the metro stations inwards betwixt depicted inwards order.
It is a piffling surprising that nosotros don't come across to a greater extent than interactive strip maps on the internet. The browser, amongst its oft linear scrolling method of navigation, seems to lend itself rather good to the strip map format. However interactive strip maps on the spider web appear to live few in addition to far between.
Propublica has but published a actually nicely created strip map, called Killing the Colorado. The map takes the user on a journeying downward the Colorado river, exploring how human being is applied scientific discipline the kicking the bucket of this 1 time non bad river.
As y'all scroll downward the page y'all follow the class of the river overlaid on a satellite view. On your journeying downward the river data windows opened upwards highlighting some of the H2O projects that are draining H2O from the river.
The Propublica map owes a lot of its inspiration to the New York Times' H5N1 Rogue State Along Two Rivers. A Rogue State Along Two Rivers explores the ascent of ISIS past times next the paths of the Tigris in addition to Euphrates Rivers. The interactive stitches together a serial of aerial images of both rivers to exercise a strip map which y'all navigate past times scrolling downward the page.
Obviously at that topographic point is a danger amongst this form of linear narrative that the medium becomes the whole message. Any ISIS related intelligence stories which happen some distance from the 2 rivers are non going to locomote far to the map. However the fact that urban settlements inwards northern in addition to western Republic of Iraq grew-up along the 2 rivers agency that this linear cast of narrative plant real good inwards exploring the ascent of ISIS inwards Iraq.
As y'all scroll downward either river overlays explicate the province of affairs inwards towns in addition to cities, oft amongst links to fuller reports inwards the New York Times.
