Happy Martyr’s Day! It’s a national day in India celebrating Mahatma Gandhi.
To honor his legacy, I created a map of his historic march with information along the way at each stop. Again, doing one of these a day in my spare time doesn’t leave much time for innovation or design, but I can imagine coming back to this and adding non-proprietary imagery and details along the way.
Also, this is my first ever map in Hindi. There is a button in the upper right. You can switch between English and Hindi there. I cannot vouch for the Hindi translations, but I assure you, they are better and more accurate than what I would have been able to do before prompt cartography. I hope they serve this great human being justice.
Map production time constraints and language barriers aside, Gandhi inspires me (particularly in today’s geopolitical climate here in Minnesota).
I am proud to give Martyr’s Day a map of its own in our #365DaysOfMaps challenge.
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Prompt Used in Web Mapper GPT
I would like to make a map of Ghandi’s travels for India’s National Martyr Day. I have a CSV dataset (attached). Please keep this map pinned to India and Bangladesh area — i.e., cannot pan out of these bounds or zoom out past South Asia. Please use a topographic base map and if possible use a mask that that has India’s flag colors lightly embued in it to give it an India vibe. The mask must be below the mapped data, but abover the base map. Please use point symbols that are in India’s Orange color (on the nation’s flag, with India’s Green slight drop shadows. When a user clicks on a point, a pop-up info window should appear showing all th English information such in the following visual hierarchy order: – Stop Name (Place Name) and Province – Description – Context (when available) – Date (near top but subdued) – Sources (as a bulleted list) Please use an aesthetic and palette that ties to India’s national colors. Keep is subdued. The title should be Display Text in the format of 1950s Newspaper Headlines. Come up with three good titles dealing with Martyr Day and Ghandi. perhap something akin to “The Martyr’s March”. Pick your favorite and include it in the upper-left hovering over the map in large, print-map like style. No background box. (Make sure you use some effects to make it legible over the base map, e.g. drop shadow, etc.). Make the title stand out. In the upper-right, include a hamburger icon that when clicked shows a menu that includes a link to Sources. When that is clicked show a modal splash window with sources and attributions. It should close when someone clicks anywhere outside of it and it must not be open when the map opens. Also include a button that says “Hindi” in Hindi, please. When the user clicks this button, the map pop-ups and title and hamburger menu items all switch to Hindi. (There are Hindi fields in the dataset replicating English fields. Switch them in the popups, please.) The menu item the user clicked that said Hindi (in Hindi) now says English (in English). If the user clicks this, everything switches back to English, including the pop-up windows on the map.
