Lab 10 GoogleEarth Overlay---WOO-HOO!!!

Okay, so here it goes....it is down to the last lab and I am actually EARLY in posting this....still behind in other things, but figured get this out of the way. Like Kevin said in his blog you need to find good maps FIRST!

I thought that the lab instructions said find 2 maps of the SAME location and overlay them....well my first image is just that....the Subway and Bus network in Berlin, Germany. I worked hard to get the actual subway and bus lines to match up....so the boundary of the city may look a little off.

But I realized that these were boring and Jill wanted us to see the 3D draping effects....so I also did Great Falls, VA...hoping to get some extra effort points for this! I would liked to have had a topo map...but couldn't find a site to download them for free...

I have included pics of both and you can find my KMZ file at the following link....

http://mason.gmu.edu/~mpickar2/Lab10.kmz

Lab 9, Part 2

Please follow the link to my KMZ file....as usual, if it tries to save as a zip file, just change the file type and give it the .kmz extension.

The buildings don't line up well in GoogleEarth...I think the import into SketchUp was too large of an area....no time to fix right now.

http://mason.gmu.edu/~mpickar2/Patriot_Center_etal.kmz

Lab9 GoogleSketchUP - GMU Bldgs

Here is a JPG of my models in Google SketchUP...I was unable to load it into GoogleEarth in the lab today. I will try at home later.

Like others, I had some buildings that were not on the image....such as Potomac Heights. I had the Patriot Center, University Police, Aquatic and Fitness Center and Potomac Heights. I tried to make the fancy roof line of the fitness center, but wasn't having any luck. I couldn't get the alignment correct...so it is a boring flat roof.

I stumbled upon another site....maps.live.com which uses pictometry imagery and you can see the buildings from a lower oblique angle. I will do another blog entry and show a screen capture.

weekly blog post ---Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/357/4/370

The above link takes you to the New England Journal of Medicine Article that studied Obesity rates within a social network. Read below for the "legend" of the colors in the image. The title and authors are listed in bold.

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The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years
Nicholas A. Christakis, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., and James H. Fowler, Ph.D.

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Figure 1. Largest Connected Subcomponent of the Social Network in the Framingham Heart Study in the Year 2000.
Each circle (node) represents one person in the data set. There are 2200 persons in this subcomponent of the social network. Circles with red borders denote women, and circles with blue borders denote men. The size of each circle is proportional to the person's body-mass index. The interior color of the circles indicates the person's obesity status: yellow denotes an obese person (body-mass index, 30) and green denotes a nonobese person. The colors of the ties between the nodes indicate the relationship between them: purple denotes a friendship or marital tie and orange denotes a familial tie.

Lab 8 (Part II) Google SketchUP

Here it is...a web browser based application that lets you zoom to anywhere inthe world...add placemarks, routes, upload images, search for places you may need to go or want to visit and you can see it all in 2D or 3D in a globe.....

oh wait....hasn't Google already done that???

Now my bubble is burst...ha-ha! Seriously, I downloaded the sphere from the SketchUP download page...cool stuff there...and played around with simple shapes, shadows and 3d text. I figure I kicked butt on the placemarks and GoogleEarth Part I, so I am hoping to get some creativitty points here!

I really am impressed with how easy to use GoogleEarth and SketchUP are!

Lab 8 Placemarks

The link to my kmz file for Lab 8 can be found below.....

http://mason.gmu.edu/~mpickar2/Pickard_Lab8_Placemarks.kmz

If it doesn't automatically open....save it to your desktop as a KMZ file.

Lab6 Motion and Tweening

Here is my Operation Barbarossa (German Invasion of Russia in 1941)

It ain't pretty....but it works....now to Lab 7. I can't WAIT to start Google Earth and SketchUP :-)

Please follow the link below....ignore the funky blue background, not sure how to get rid of that and time is wasting away....JPG above for a quick view.

http://mason.gmu.edu/~mpickar2/lab6_final.html