Today's progress report. The archieve of all of Regent Street is almost complete now. All files are JPEG and have a resolution of 2181,2981. Information on the format and attributes I'll be using for the actual map can be found on my Google Docs at this address: https://docs.google.com/a/my.westminster.ac.uk/Doc?id=dhb4f2gv_03ckwgzf4&hl=en
Monday 13 July 2009
Wednesday 8 July 2009
Tuesday 7 July 2009
Day 11: Monday
Day 8 + 9 + 10: Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Day 8, Wednesday I spent the day at the mixing and mashing event at Cavendish where we mostly discussed other app ideas and the implimentation of them into the Blackboard systems. I thought about more app ideas. I came up with some good stuff.
Day 9, Thursday was spent meeting with friends of mine who are programmers and have potential to do some work on the project. I met both people seperately, one in London, one in Harrow. I discussed with them the prospect of programming the app both for the Blackboard environment and for iPhones and iPod touch. Niether of them had heard of the programming language that Alex had told me about the day before called 'Objective C'. Though one of my two mates had worked with C++ before which is in some ways similar. Came home and brainstormed on the ideas I came up with at mixing and mashing.
Day 10, Friday I spent the morning researching what current Web tools are avaliable and related to the new apps I had in mind. In the afternoon I did some designing work on alternate apps other than the campus maps. Also had a look on the internet at logos for similar type maps.
Tuesday 30 June 2009
Day 7: Tuesday
Tuesday, I spent most of the day sorting out the maps on photoshop. Having spoken to Alex I know that the other layers can be added onto the map image afterwards and with different levels of transparency. So as soon as I have the other campus maps I can decided upon a uniform image resolution so all the image files are identical in size.
I finished the maps for the 4th, 5th and sub-basement floors today.I got in touch with two potential programmers and have arranged meetings relating to the creation of the ideas I have. One of the meetings is on thursday.
I used the last hour of the day to brainstorm ideas for Mixing and Mashing tomorrow. I've got 4 decent ideas for mixing and mashing tomorrow. I'm determined to (and will) win at least one of the prize catagories.
Day 6: Monday
This morning I spent sometime in Cavendish answering emails and chasing up Estates on the maps for the other 3 campus'. After this I went to Regent campus to check out a few things that the map was unclear about. Getting round the campus was a NIGHTMARE! Even with a map, it's got a very complicated layout. I made a few notes about where there are unmarked steps, which gender the bathrooms are for and places that are decpite looking simple completely inaccessible.
Got home and continued to add layers to the map of the 4th floor and also do all the basement floor.