map started

I already sent this message out as an email to everyone, but I just thought I'd post here as well.

This is a merged map of West Virginia and Iraq, with Morgantown and Bagdad as one city. I saw Seline mentioned the idea of using "toy soldiers" on the blog, and I thought it would be interesting to make a "game board" format for our interactive map where you rollover and click on one of the checkpoints to view our report. I think this conveys the idea, too, that sometimes politicians trivialize war into a game where human soldiers become meaningless pawns in their plan. So, the user could click on the star to begin and a similar game board map reminiscent of a relief map will feature several checkpoints as we discussed in our meeting last week.

I'm still working on labeling the "merged map" points. I will use my Tuesday morning class time to finish that and send it out.

I guess in the meantime, we can think about a script and scenario for where we would like to film and/or photograph this event. Personally I think photography might be easier and even more powerful to capture what is going on, especially if it's dark outside. (i.e. for a violent DPS interview with a scared drunk pulling up to this checkpoint)