Nonprofit Galleries and Museums and Proximity to Subway Stations
Martha Cassel
Description
This project is the first stage of an interactive map that looks at the proximity of nonprofit galleries and museums to subway transportation. The target audience is artists and people in arts-related fields throughout the five boroughs and beyond who would like a comprehensive, visual, one-stop map of all the non-profit galleries and museums in the New York City area. Rather than pecking through google maps (or similar), the user can quickly see the institutions relationship to one another and plan trips via public transportation to either an individual destination or closely clustered galleries and museums.
Purpose and Motivation for Choosing this Particular Subject
The idea for the map came out of a conversation with my two nieces who are artists and work in non-profit galleries. I asked them if they could have a map anything in the city, what would it be.
The map vehicle and first step to develop basic skills in data collection, building of data sets, parsing, visualization and web-interactivity.
Further Development
Significantly more interactivity including:
- side bar or overlay as illustrated in mock-up
- event listener such as hover. When hoving over a gallery or museum marker or subway line and identifying popup would appear
- event listener such as click-on to activate a buffer. For example if the user clicked on a specific gallery the subway stations within a quarter-mile would become highlighted via markers that increase in size and/or darken in color. And conversely if the user clicked on a subway station the museums and galleries within a quarter-mile radius would get highlighted. This would provide both scale to the map and quick visual access to the information -- again rather than pecking through google to understand and mentally map for oneself the proximities/distances/commute and walk time, etc. As someone who is new to the city it is difficult for me to evaluate block size and thus walking distances in different parts of the city when using something like google maps.
- zoom interactivity including "home zoom", conditional styling at different zoom levels as was done in the Carto Prototype
Problems Encountered & Lessons Learned
Keeping track of javascript code
Introducing interactivity after getting data and conditional styling down; backing out to try to clean up code for organiation of subsequent work
Buffering for this application was very difficult in Carto and didn’t provide the results that I was looking for. It was determined in discussions with Jesse and Case that this is something that should be done via ArcGIS at a later date.
Don't try to learn a proprietary (Carto) system while simultaneously learning base tools (styling and interactivity thorugh javascript)!!!!
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