Cryptid Sightings
Another fun project from my Creative Cartography course is when we had to map two sets of data. I’m a big fan of monsters and spookiness so I wanted to see if there was any interesting connections could be made between Bigfoot and UFO sightings. Get spooked here!
vision
Because I was mapping cryptids, the colors of the map needed to be dark to give it some dimension and further the spooky atmosphere (I believe I chose a preset style from the styler tool). I got the idea to make the pop up boxes mirror a 90s black screen, green text kind of feel to add an extra layer of spookiness/top secret FBI-ness to it.
execution
I used Google Maps API to create the map. I styled the pop up boxes with HTML/CSS + Google Fonts and used Icons8 for the icons.