Animated & Web-Based Mapping Workshop

Axis Maps and the University of Texas present a 3-day workshop:

Join us for this 3-day workshop and learn how to design and build professional interactive and animated maps. With the world of web mapping moving at lightspeed, we'll teach you what you need to know about cartography today, what technology to implement, and how to deliver great looking custom geographic content over the web. If you want to take your maps beyond simple red pushpins on a Google map, this is the seminar for you.

We will take you through graduate-level discussions on the principles of cartography and insights from the latest mapping research. From there, we will move to hands-on development, implementing these ideas by building a series of interactive, web-based maps. We will provide you with extensive tutorials, lecture materials, and custom code libraries. At the end of the workshop you will have everything you need to start building your own content right away.

Lecture Topics Covered:
Thinking beyond paper
Map animation and geovisualization
Interface design do's and don'ts
Flattening the learning curve
Understanding visual and cognitive limits
User testing

Lab Topics Covered:
Loading dynamic geodata
Filtering data by attributes or time
Data-driven symbols
Using open-source visualization libraries
Programming Actionscript 3
Design in the Flash CS4 environment

August 17-19, 2009
University of Texas Geography Building
9am - 5pm

For more information, please see the link below:
http://workshop.axismaps.com/