How about one more thread about maps?

[hunterjwizzard]

New user, sorry if this violates some rule. Didn't want to hijack the other threads.

I was curious if anyone has a good way to present a map to the reader when it is entirely too large? My map lives inside an adobe illustrator document as a rastor graphic that's somewhere around 80 inches by 80 inches. I rely on zooming in(yay rastor graphics!) for all the small details like cities. The whole map would be incomprehensible at scale. I've cut it up into pieces for the wiki, but I was wondering if anyone knew a cheap/simple way to make the map easier to digest? I also have the minor problem of despite ~10 years working on it, it is still not done.

Thoughts?

 

[ThinkerX]

I went with multiple naps for the big picture, which covers about a third of the northern hemisphere.

 

[hunterjwizzard]

What I really want is one of those click drag and zoom things for my book website. But I do not know to code.

 

[skip.knox]

You did say website. I don't think there's anything for e-books, but for html I entered this as a search string:
a widget or embed that supports zoom and click and drag
and got at least a number of hits. It would be up to you to see if any are usable by you.

 

[pmmg]

Several Options

1) Cut it into pieces
2) Make different scale presentations, possibly showing only what is relevant to the book in hand.
3) have a website
4) Put only the relevant portions at the start of each chapter
5) Have a giant sized book
6) Dont provide a map.

I am not sure there is a good answer. I liked how David Edding had the maps on the cover of each book. For, myself, I have a big map, and multiple zoomed in maps. I just put the relevant ones in the book.

 

[hunterjwizzard]

You did say website. I don't think there's anything for e-books, but for html I entered this as a search string:
a widget or embed that supports zoom and click and drag
and got at least a number of hits. It would be up to you to see if any are usable by you.

Yup. I am looking in to doing that next. Unfortunately I am in the midst of a massive heatwave and have all my more sophisticated computers shut down. Specifically the machine with all the files for the website on it. I'm typing this on an intel atom PC the size of a hockey puck.