Social Explorer Review

I thought this website was well put together and very informative. It was easy to glance at the population map for a given time period and easily tell the population density for the area. I also thought the slide show tool was pretty cool because it allowed the user to essentially take snapshots of a map and easily compare them side by side. I also liked how you could compare large or small regions with the zoom tool. It was quite easy to find my home town and create a slide show of the pop density over several years and compare and contrast them.

Aside from the easy use of the map, I believe that from an amateur map makers stand point it is a well constructed map scheme. Personally i found the pop density shown as different shades of a single color to be much more helpful than several different colors all in one map. Also I think that brown is a good color to do this with because it is easy to distinguish multiple shades.

I also like the setup of the legend because it doesn't use the traditional style of putting its tittle at the top. The reason I like this is because the user can still tell what the map is about because the tittle is the first thing that the user looks at because of its size, and then I can organize what information Id like to see before seeing the results of the current map.