{"id":969,"date":"2007-03-06T02:02:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T07:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/03\/06\/969\/"},"modified":"2007-05-30T16:29:52","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T20:29:52","slug":"the-lost-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/03\/06\/969\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using the same php code that rotates my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/03\/03\/968\/\">banners<\/a>, I have begun to make my next generation of maps.  Since I am not actively making too many new maps at the moment, I&#8217;ve decided to start dabbling with methods of displaying my maps.<\/p>\n<p>Five files were placed on-line for nearly each map I made in 2006: the <a href=\"http:\/\/nikolasschiller.com\/posters\/harvardquilt-nw.jpg\">full-size map<\/a> (18,000&#215;12,000 pixels reduced to 1,200&#215;800), <a href=\"http:\/\/nikolasschiller.com\/posters\/harvardquilt-nw-zoom.jpg\">a zoom-to the center<\/a> (reduced from 4200&#215;4200 pixels to 800&#215;800 pixels), <a href=\"http:\/\/nikolasschiller.com\/posters\/harvardquilt-nw-zoom2.jpg\">a direct zoom-in to the center<\/a> (at 800&#215;800 pixels), and <a href=\"http:\/\/nikolasschiller.com\/posters\/harvardquilt-nw-cut.jpg\">two details<\/a> picked randomly from <a href=\"http:\/\/nikolasschiller.com\/posters\/harvardquilt-nw-cut2.jpg\">somewhere on the map<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/03\/02\/729\/\">Harvard Quilt &#8211; NE<\/a> linked for visual explanation).<\/p>\n<p>By copying these various files to new folders on my website I&#8217;ve developed a means to randomly select any of the five different files.  The result is a series of interactive web pages that are defined by geography and type of cartographic detail.  The main drawback to the php script I am using is that you never see the name of the map you are looking at.  Paradoxically, this also means you <strong><em>really<\/em><\/strong> are lost in the maps.  A compass will not help you much :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the same php code that rotates my banners, I have begun to make my next generation of maps. Since I am not actively making too many new maps at the moment, I&#8217;ve decided to start dabbling with methods of displaying my maps. Five files were placed on-line for nearly each map I made in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,258,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interactive","category-lost","category-renderings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":54,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nikolasschiller.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}