1873 in map form, or what I did instead of making practical food

[trouble]

Okay! So, I spent some time this evening (between chatting on twitter about "student issues" and making yummy-smelling vegetarian sloppy joes [which are still cooking]) plotting a map with the homes of the students that attended the Halifax School for the Blind in 1873.



Description: Map of Nova Scotia with several settlements highlighted with blue pointers. The data is recreated in a table below.

The map is also available interactively (somewhat) on Google Maps.

City	Number of Students	Distance from Halifax
Musquodoboit	2 students	72 km
Londonderry	2 students	125 km
Pictou	2 students	164 km
Great Village	1 student	120 km
Ingonish *	1 student	453 km
Walton	1 student	91.6 km
Victoria Settlement	1 student	180 km
Bridgewater	1 student	106 km
LaHave	1 Student	119 km
Tatamagouche	1 student	148 km
Halifax	2 students	0

My goal is to plot out the distances that students came from over time.

I'm mostly doing this out of curiosity, I admit. I don't think the information I'm gathering is necessarily going to be terribly useful to what I'm going to end up writing, but it may be, and I'd hate to have to recreate it from notes later.

Plus it looks cool. *grin*

Comments

[stellar_dust]

This is entirely awesome!

[particle-person.livejournal.com]

Oooh, this is awesome! I love maps and data. You could color code the pins somehow. I would suggest coloring by number of students in a 20 mile radius around each city (pick a city, draw a 20 mi radius circle, count how many students are inside the circle, repeat for each city). I wrote a computer program to do that for another Google map, and I could adapt it for you...

[zaftig46.livejournal.com]

I've done a Google Map for my research, too - it is awesome!

[firynze.livejournal.com]

That, and it might be useful to SOMEONE eventually. That's awesome! Living in the future is great!

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

Dude! So nifty!