Site Geography Lee Sinclair 10th September 2004
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Site Geography
Lee Sinclair10th September 2004
Objectives
• Introduce the idea of site geography
• Discuss possibilities• Open the floor for discussion
Outline
• What is site geography?• How would it work?• Why is it useful?
– Chunking - Countries, states, cities and suburbs
– Traffic - Highways, Main roads and streets and dusty tracks
– Activity
What is Site Geography?
• A concept of mapping information elements (such as pages) with the context of a cadastral plane
• Places (towns) on the map represent information elements
• Proximity to other fragments represent the relationship information has to each other
How Would it Work?
Information fragment alignment
Mar
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Council Lifestyle
Council
Individual
LargeCorporate
SMECorporate
OtherCouncils
Groups
CommunityBrisbaneBusiness
eTenders
Sport and Recreation Strategy
Water Strategy
Find a Council Job
Permits and Licences
What’s OnSeniorsDA Submissions
Migrants and refugees
Cemeteries
Development applicationsConveyance Searches
About Council
•Each box (town) represents an information element;•The proximity of towns communicates a relationship, ie towns towards the edge of boxes are related to nearby regions, whereas towns in the center of the box are not related to other areas;•Each axis is a continuum, the bottom axis a continuum from one classification of information to another. While the Y axis is a continuum of market segments;•The choice of axis continuums is the most difficult.•Within small sites, information elements can be assigned co-ordinates by hand. Within a large site automated tools could be used to calculate the relationship between information elements.
Chunking
Information fragment alignment
Mar
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Council
Individual
Page h
Page f
Page b
Find a Council Job
Apprenticeships and traineeships
Page d
Page dPage e
Page a
Page c
Page jPage i
About Council
Based on tasksand user storiese.g.applying for a job
•Information elements can be grouped visually;•When new pages are added, their relationship with other pages can be quickly established, moreover how information elements should be linked;
Information fragment alignment
Mar
ket O
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tati
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Council
Individual
Page h
Page f
Page b
Find a Council Job
Apprenticeships and traineeships
Page dPage dPage e
Page a
Page c
Page jPage i
About Council
Traffic - Highways, Major roads and dusty tracks
HighwayMajor roadMain streetStreetDusty trackBike track
•Metrics can be fed into the system, that can establish pathways through a website by traffic;•Quickly pathways to a town can be determined (eg by clicking on a town), showing direct and indirect paths;•Lengthy paths can be established and analysed, particularly lengthy highways.
Activity
Information fragment alignment
Mar
ket O
rien
tati
on
Council
Individual
Page h
Page f
Page b
Find a Council Job
Apprenticeships and traineeships
Page dPage dPage e
Page a
Page c
Page jPage i
About Council
•Another application of metrics is website activity;•Activity and other information can be displayed using a third dimension (colour);•In the diagram left, highly active areas are shaded light grey, while les active areas are dark grey;•Areas shaded blank (ie. no traffic) would identify areas that have had little or no traffic.•Using time based information, the activity could be played like a movie and similar to a weather map showing hot and cold areas over a day, week, month, quarter or year. In this way identifying cycles in behaviour, or recent areas of interest;
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