looking for top-down map of LSU
so here is some background. every 3 months, yahoo has a “hack day” where instead of working you spend 24 hours on a hack. a hack can be a new product idea, a new feature for an existing product, whatever. afterwards you showcase your hack (you have 90 seconds) and a panel votes on the best. well one of the hacks from last hack day just went live in yahoo maps, but i need some help finding something. (i didn’t make this, b/c if i did, i would be pimping it 10x harder :P)
http://maps.yahoo.com/mapmixer
mapmixer lets you take a 3rd party map (such as… a map of the LSU campus? :]) and overlay it on top of the global map. but in order to do this, the map needs to be a 2D, top-down view otherwise it doesn’t make much sense. all the campus maps of LSU i can find either have an angled view, or are too ugly to use. ideally it would have all the buildings labeled, since that is kinda the point. this is the best i could find, but the building names are un-readable :[
if you find one, you can post here or if you want, just post it yourself to mapmixer.
here’s an example: (don’t forget to play with the opacity)
if you can’t see anything, stop reading this from facebook and come to my site! :P







madigan says:
September 14th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
http://appl003.lsu.edu/cas/lsudining.nsf/c80b430cd33e225e862568af001ac65b/25d7d08f9e96b8fc86256bf2005b3a97/Body/0.45E?OpenElement&FieldElemFormat=jpg
mmmm…food
Keith says:
September 15th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
lol i never knew lsu had so many krispy kremes.
trey says:
September 16th, 2007 at 10:28 am
http://campusmap.lsu.edu/map/framesetup.asp
In order to do the whole campus, youd probably have to zoom in to where you can read the building names, and then overlay that small section onto the map, then do another section. a map that covered the WHOLE campus but still had the building names legible would be insanely huge in pixel dimensions.