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.

This is not merely a software training class. While software and the latest technology change constantly, great maps have been—and always will be—based on a deep understanding of good design and communication. Just as owning a word processor won't make you a great author, simple button pushing in GIS/mapping software is never going to create brilliant, content-rich, easy-to-use maps. We teach you how to think and work like a professional cartographer.

TOPICS COVERED

Lectures

• 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

Labs

• 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

ABOUT US

Work one-on-one with the award-winning team from Axis Maps. Axis Maps is custom cartography for the digital age. We are experts in both the traditions of cartography and the innovations of interactive media. Our strong foundation in the principles of design, our experiences working with a wide range of clients, and our insights from the latest cartographic research and user testing allows us to build custom mapping products of the highest quality.

Dr. Mark Harrower

With 15 years of teaching experience, 30+ journal publications, and one of the most successful graduate GIS/cartography programs in the country, Professor Harrower has a trained a long list of distinguished alumni working throughout the mapping sciences including National Geographic, FEMA, the New York Times, and National Security Agencies.

Zachary Forest Johnson

Zachary is an experienced teacher, cartographer, and developer. Though fluent in many client and server-side programming languages, he specializes in the Flash platform. While earning his Master's degree in Cartography and GIS, Zach and a number of his students won mapping awards from National Geographic, NACIS, and other professional societies.