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 micro
    
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Slowly I turned
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<Reply # 100 on 1/26/2005 5:37 AM >
|  | | | The map probably doesn't need to be so big, and I'm not sure it needs to be right out in front like that either. Maybe you could tuck it away somewhere else? Most people should know where their regions are anyway without needing a this sort of thing to confirm it for them.
Also, the amount of code that you've used to create this thing is kind of ridiculous. Why do you have to slice up the image like that? Just use a single image and draw rectangular imagemaps around the names of each area name. It'll be a lot simpler and'll cut down on the file size. It's the most important page and your sketchy code alone is taking up 100k+.
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White Rabbit
 
Women's Advocate
Location: Missouri
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 101 on 1/26/2005 5:59 AM >
| | | | Posted by micro
Also, the amount of code that you've used to create this thing is kind of ridiculous. Why do you have to slice up the image like that? Just use a single image and draw rectangular imagemaps around the names of each area name. It'll be a lot simpler and'll cut down on the file size. It's the most important page and your sketchy code alone is taking up 100k+.
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It can't be done with the read states icons as an imagemap. It had to be done the way Av did it to have the read state icons in there. And frankly, I think the way he did it was genius. I wouldn't have thought of it.
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fedge
Location: Gaud Corners, Ontario, Canada
Gender: Male
you blight up my life™®
| | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 102 on 1/26/2005 8:03 AM >
| | | | Now will come requests to do a world map for the World forum...
18-odd Years Of UER-ing! |
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keti
Moderator
Location: Providence, RI
Gender: Female
#EA98DE
| | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 103 on 1/26/2005 9:22 AM >
| | | | Posted by fedge
Now will come requests to do a world map for the World forum...
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Posted by HauntedPA
Would be interesting to see that happen for all sections of the world in time. Just a thought there. Do something similar with Canada, Europe, ect...
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[23:38:31] <metawaffle> I'm surprised the NE forum doesn't fall off UER from the weight of thread locks
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Avatar-X
  
Alpha Husky
Location: West Coast
Gender: Male
yay!
| | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 104 on 1/26/2005 12:54 PM >
| | | | The map is not disproportional -- it just happens to be the first ACCURATE map I found when I searched for Vectored Maps of North America on google. The rest of the world was also in the map but I cut out just north america.
Wrabbit is right -- the map code has to be done that way. Considering that the map is a mere 110k of jpg's and 25k of code, I think it's quite a nice thing for only 135k (considering that the JPG of the map alone, as one piece, is 100k)
P.S. The reason we decided we needed the map was because not all americans can agree on what states belong in what regions. "Mid-Atlantic" may be confusing to people. Just look back in the thread here to see how much arguing over the regions there was. The map makes it clear to everyone.
-av
[last edit 1/26/2005 12:56 PM by Avatar-X - edited 1 times]
huskies - such fluff. |
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Doc Lightning
I fucking wish....
| | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 105 on 1/26/2005 7:50 PM >
| | | | Posted by fedge
Now will come requests to do a world map for the World forum...
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Second last post on the second page of this very thread, in fact.....
Rach thu agus a' sgaoil am leathar de bhur paithar |
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Avatar-X
Alpha Husky
Location: West Coast
Gender: Male
yay!
| | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 106 on 1/26/2005 8:43 PM >
| | | | The map has now also been applied to the Infiltration interface.
-av
huskies - such fluff. |
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Avatar-X
Alpha Husky
Location: West Coast
Gender: Male
yay!
| | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 107 on 1/27/2005 2:03 PM >
| | | | The UER map has been changed to a more appealing colour scheme. Thanks to David416 for the design 
-av
huskies - such fluff. |
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Shane
Moderator
Location: Bronx, NY
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 108 on 1/27/2005 7:55 PM >
| | | | Posted by Avatar-X
The UER map has been changed to a more appealing colour scheme. Thanks to David416 for the design
-av
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Wooo, thank you! No more eye burnination!
"Because there's no possibility of real disaster, real risk, we're left with no chance for real salvation. Real elation. Real excitement. Joy. Discovery. Invention. The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. Without access to true chaos, we'll never have true peace. Unless everything can get worse, it won't get any better." -Chuck Palahniuk |
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Avatar-X
Alpha Husky
Location: West Coast
Gender: Male
yay!
| | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 110 on 1/27/2005 9:50 PM >
| | | | Posted by Mike Dijital
So I like what Av did ALOT, but let give the credit to the map where it belongs.
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I'm not claiming credit, but I'm sorry to say that the concept of using a map to indicate different geographic locations didn't originate on Ninj's site, or on any website.
-av
huskies - such fluff. |
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Mike Dijital
  
UEDB Moderator
Location: Boston MA.
Gender: Male
UE ver. 1.0
| | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 111 on 1/27/2005 9:52 PM >
| | | | Posted by Avatar-X
I'm not claiming credit, but I'm sorry to say that the concept of using a map to indicate different geographic locations didn't originate on Ninj's site, or on any website.
-av
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No but, lets be honest, I know thats where you lifted the idea for the regional map.
come on Av, lets be honest
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greywolf45
Location: U.S.A.
Gender: Male
Resident UER pain in the ass
| |  | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 112 on 1/27/2005 10:07 PM >
| | | | Posted by Avatar-X
I need the americans to decide how best to split up the country visually -- let's say a max of 7 sections.
-av
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It sounds good to me Av, th only problem, i see is where do Alaska, and Hawaii fit in?
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends"
Martin Luther King Jr. |
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Avatar-X
Alpha Husky
Location: West Coast
Gender: Male
yay!
| | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 113 on 1/27/2005 10:25 PM >
| | | | Posted by Mike Dijital
No but, lets be honest, I know thats where you lifted the idea for the regional map.
come on Av, lets be honest
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Actually, if you look back in the history of this thread, you'll see someone else suggested the idea of a map.
huskies - such fluff. |
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Mike Dijital
UEDB Moderator
Location: Boston MA.
Gender: Male
UE ver. 1.0
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<Reply # 114 on 1/27/2005 10:33 PM >
| | | | Av................. you do know im messing with you, I like the map. I think its a little overpowering on the front page, but I like it alot.
www.deggi5.com / www.mikedijital.com |
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White Rabbit
Women's Advocate
Location: Missouri
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 115 on 1/27/2005 11:45 PM >
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Not the map, anybody can do that :p I meant the way he put the working read states icons inside the map by breaking it up into all those smaller images. I wouldn't have thought of that.
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Anymouse
Location: Calgary, AB
Gender: Male
| | |  | | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 116 on 1/28/2005 2:36 PM >
| | | | Wow, is Alaska really half the size of the continental USA? Freak should have oodles to explore with that much landmass : )
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Down State
This member has been banned.
| | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 117 on 1/28/2005 2:42 PM >
| | | | United States total area: 3,537,441 square miles.
Alaska: 656,425 square miles
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IIVQ
Location: La Sud-Est du cité majeur du North-Holland (Bijlmer), .NL
Gender: Male
Back in Urbex!
| | |  | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 118 on 1/28/2005 9:05 PM >
| | | | Posted by Avatar-X
The map is not disproportional -- it just happens to be the first ACCURATE map I found when I searched for Vectored Maps of North America on google. The rest of the world was also in the map but I cut out just north america.
Wrabbit is right -- the map code has to be done that way. Considering that the map is a mere 110k of jpg's and 25k of code, I think it's quite a nice thing for only 135k (considering that the JPG of the map alone, as one piece, is 100k)
P.S. The reason we decided we needed the map was because not all americans can agree on what states belong in what regions. "Mid-Atlantic" may be confusing to people. Just look back in the thread here to see how much arguing over the regions there was. The map makes it clear to everyone.
-av
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I haven't tried, but with the current color scheme (which uses < 256 colors) you could probably save a few k's by saving the images as .gif instead of .jpg.
Remember: JPEG for photo's, GIF for Graphics
(Gif heavily compresses large areas of the exact same color, and lossless, while JPEG compresses on similar colors but is lossy, which shows very clearly in graphs but less in photo's)
Tijmen
But, kudo's to av!
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White Rabbit
Women's Advocate
Location: Missouri
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Splitting the US board in smaller boards
<Reply # 119 on 1/28/2005 9:06 PM >
| | | | Posted by Anymouse
Wow, is Alaska really half the size of the continental USA? Freak should have oodles to explore with that much landmass : )
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If he had his own airplane, maybe  It takes forever to drive anywhere up there because it's spread out over such a huge area. And there's pretty much no roads on the west half of the state (except in the individual cities), just the east half, so you have to fly anywhere you wanna go over there.
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