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Campus Maps of the Big Ten Universities - Part One
Tue, 09/30/2008 - 16:51 — rw
So who has the best campus map of the Big Ten? How do their web site campus maps compare and how is their OpenStreetMap campus shaping up? We look at the Big Ten Conference and OpenStreetMap. Where are the OSM hotspots and where shall we map next?
- The Big Ten Conference are
- University of Illinois
- Indiana University
- University of Iowa
- University of Michigan
- Michigan State University
- University of Minnesota
- Northwestern University
- Ohio State University
- Pennsylvania State University
- Purdue University
- University of Wisconsin
University of Illinois Fighting Illini
The Illinois map. Bike lanes are marked but get lost in the subtle colors. Fonts are poor and too small. Map is fixed size and does not scale with browser is probably terrible on a cell phone. Clickable thumbnail overview is nice. OpenStreetMap University of Illinois shows some activity including buildings and footpaths.
- Illini 3/10
- OSM Illini 3/10
Indiana University Hoosiers
- The Indiana map scales with the browser and has a searchable and clickable list of buildings that zooms to the building and pops up the address and other information. Text scales nicely and is legible. No visible OSM activity.
- Hoosiers 9/10
- OSM Hoosiers 0/10
- Hawkeyes 2/10
- OSM Hawkeyes 0/10
- Wolverines 2/10
- OSM Wolverines 0/10
- Spartans 6/10
- OSM Spartans 8/10
- Golden Gophers 3/10
- OSM Golden Gophers 1/10
University of Iowa Hawkeyes
The University of Iowa map is a static image. Inability to scale limits this map to being cluttered and hard to read. There is little or no OSM activity on the Iowa campus.
University of Michigan Wolverines
The Michigan map is also a fixed image, but is a high resolution image with a zooming widget. Zoom in for any legibility. No sign of OSM activity at Michigan
Michigan State University Spartans
The Michigan State map is a fixed size Google map widget with an MSU image layer at selected zoom levels. The OSM map of Michigan State is much better than the school map. It scales to browser size, shows more campus details at more zoom levels including walkways and cycle paths. Michigan State could use OSM now and have a greatly improved map.
University of Minnesota Golden Gophers
The University of Minnesota map is also just a large image. It is slightly out of date as it still shows the I35W bridge standing west of campus. No zooming widget so it will fit your browser, but the download on your mobile device will be expensive for this 1MB image. There is some OSM activity at University of Minnesota including some paths and buildings. It won't take much more effort to make the OSM map substantially better than the official campus map.
