About these maps

The maps

• The Solar System (in progress)
• The world
• The world with subnational units
• US and Canada: States and Provinces
• US County level map, initial focus on Southeast and NC

• Lee, Michael T. "Custom distribution maps for the world with subnational units." Version {Version}, {Version-Date}. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.unc.edu/~mikelee/map/world-admin-clickable.html (accessed {access-date}).
• Lee, Michael T. "Custom distribution Maps for the world." Version {Version}, {Version-Date}. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.unc.edu/~mikelee/map/world-clickable.html (accessed {access-date}).
• Lee, Michael T. "Custom distribution maps for North American states and provinces." Version {Version}, {Version-Date}. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.unc.edu/~mikelee/map/USA-Can-clickable.html (accessed {access-date}).
• Lee, Michael T. "Custom distribution maps for US counties." Version {Version}, {Version-Date}. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. http://www.unc.edu/~mikelee/map/us-county-clickable.html (accessed {access-date}).

Browsers

As of version 1.13 October 18, 2012, this information reflects how each major modern browser works on these maps:

All modern, standards-compliant browsers work with these pages:

Works completely!

Works completely!

Works completely!

Works, but zooming and panning failed as of April 2010.

Non-compliant browsers will not work with these pages, due to their lack of SVG support:

Fails completely: no SVG support.

Acknowledgements

I am very grateful for the work posted by these folks:

• Mr. Matté for the US County SVG map posted on wikimedia commons
• Lokal_Profil for the US-Canada SVG map on wikimedia commons
• CanuckGuy for the World SVG Map
• The above SVG maps were apparenty created with Inkscape.
• David Dailey at Slippery Rock University for his excellent and sometimes freaky SVG summary and tutorial.
• Mark Kahn for his dragging functions and explanation.
• jQuery for the ability to read parameters from a file.
• Color Scheme Designer for a nice color scheme.
• Browser Choice for the browser logos.

Intellectual Property / Terms

Like most everything on the web, no warranty is made or implied about the effectiveness of these sites. Use at your own risk! Though I hope you find it useful.

Non-commercial fair use and derivitive works allowed, though please cite and share alike!

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Feedback

Feedback may be directed to mikelee.unc@gmail.com

Developers

As of version 1.13 (Oct 2012), the following parameters may be passed to automatically generate a map for the county-map:

parameter name	description/ valid values	example
1-20	comma-separated list of state_county to shade with this color number	1=NC_Orange,NC_Alamance
colorCount	Number of colors to use	colorCount=5
zoom	zoom level, automatically generated, but can be set manually. The higher the zoom, the more zoomed in the map shows.	zoom=6
monochrome	BETA! true if monochrome mode	monochrome=true
hidden	list of hidden state abbreviations	hidden=CO,KS,UT
cap	caption text for entire map	cap=this is a neat map
capx, capy, capfont, capfontsize	caption metadata, x and y location of caption, font and size of font	capx=420px&capy=130px&capfont=tahoma&capfontsize=14pt
colors	list of 6-character hex colors to use	colors=FFFFCC,FF0000,CCCCCC
bgcolor	the background color of state/county shapes that are not custom-shaded in other parameters.	bgcolor=FFFFFF
ccap1-ccap20	captions for colors 1 to 20	ccap1=red stuff&ccap2=green stuff
ccapbgcolor	background color for color legend	ccapbgcolor=FF0000
ccaptitle	title of color legend	ccaptitle=colors mean this
ccapx, ccapy	x and y of color legend box	ccapx=500px&ccapy=300px
rotate	how much rotation to add, in degrees	rotate=6
readonly	true if the page should not be editable	readonly=true
paramfile	path of the file on the server that stores any of the above parameters. You cannot use this term to link to an outside file, unfortunately. This is a jQuery limitation due to cross-site scripting problems.	paramfile=dist/a/acer-rubrum.txt