World Radio Day by the United Nations because… well… maybe because people were forgetting about the importance or radio for emergency communications, etc.? I’m not quite sure.
Personally, I love radio. Have ever since I saw Pump Up the Volume with Christian Slater (about a high school pirate radio station!) in the 1980s when I was an impressionable kid.
I decided to make a map that highlights some major moments in European and US radio broadcasting history. My goal was to try a narrative (okay, fine, story map) style. I used Dataset Doctor GPT to create the historic datasets (one for the technology development and one for the broadcast history. Then I asked Web Mapper GPT to come up with three styles or plans for the map. I chose the Cold War theme/vibe.
Here we are… Enjoy! And happy world radio day!
View the map (or click the image above)
Provenance File (The whole process is now stored and exported automatically in Web Mapper GPT with every map, including metadata for datasets, summary of every prompt, result, hash of final map, ethics overview, accessibility overview, etc. You can now reproduce it, by-and-large.)
Original Prompt
Now I’d like you to help me touch this map up. This map is for World Radio Day tomorrow. Functionally this works. I want to keep it working! 🙂 However, I would like you to come up with a much more polished design and a kind of cool, 1950s space-race vibe or aesthetic. The goal of the map is to highlight the development of radio technology (separate geojson rf_technology) and broadcasting (broadcasting.geojson). Two separate timelines and stories. Perhaps “front-end” versus “back-end” split? — Can you please take a look at the current map (a single file and two geojsons) and come up with some ideas for making this map more fluid and cooler? Come up with three designs and layouts. For each, include: – aesthetic vibe and look – interactivity inclusions and limits for a streamlined UX – layout locations and ideas for the scrolly map information, etc., to create a balanced layout – on desktop – on mobile – ideas for what to include in the pop up windows (pictures would be awesome if possible) – open basemap idea We’ll go from there. Thanks for your help! I’m excited about this map!
