{"id":11246,"date":"2006-10-24T07:45:10","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T07:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/10\/flash-based-rias-for-cartographers.html"},"modified":"2006-10-24T07:45:10","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T07:45:10","slug":"flash_based_rias_for_cartographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/24\/flash_based_rias_for_cartographers\/","title":{"rendered":"Flash-based RIAs for cartographers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a pair of interesting examples of using Flash technology to build hosted applications for a very specialized market:&#160; <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Developed at Penn State, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.personal.psu.edu\/cab38\/ColorBrewer\/ColorBrewer_intro.html\">ColorBrewer<\/a> is designed to facilitate selecting good color schemes for maps.  To that end it makes it easy to test drive various options using a sample map.&#160; The warning icons, indicating whether a particular scheme works well for&#160; colorblind users, monochrome copiers, etc., are a nice touch.<\/li>\n<li>UW Madison&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.typebrewer.org\/\">TypeBrewer<\/a>, meanwhile, is &quot;an online map design tool that lets mapmakers explore typography in a semi-structured environment.&quot;&#160; It can preview more than 300 unique combos of typeface options;  check your machine to see whether you have the fonts being previewed; and even generate a downloadable Illustrator template from the results. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From my perspective it&#8217;s cool to see the rise of highly focused, easy-to-use complements to larger design apps, developed in a way that makes them  accessible to anyone with a computer, regardless of platform.  [Via Colin Fleming] <\/p>\n<p>[Update: If this kind of thing is up your alley, you might also want to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/digital-vector-maps.com\/\">Digital Vector Maps<\/a>, purveyors of fine stock maps for Illustrator. [<a href=\"http:\/\/graphicdesignbasics.com\/2006\/royalty-free-vector-maps.html\">Via<\/a>]] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a pair of interesting examples of using Flash technology to build hosted applications for a very specialized market:&#160; Developed at Penn State, ColorBrewer is designed to facilitate selecting good color schemes for maps. To that end it makes it easy to test drive various options using a sample map.&#160; The warning icons, indicating whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11246"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}