GMC Safe(r) Zone Map

Modified from a MapBox template, this map shows the % of Safe(r) Zone Certified individuals in each room. I am reposting this map now, as it has seen fairly significant updates since the first verion, which featured only Bogue and parts of North. It took quite a bit of work, but this is the first map I've made using a significant amount of HTML and some JavaScript, hosted on DropBox. The maps themselves are still hosted on MapBox. A quick summary of the process is available below...



The following buildings are (as of 6/18/2013) complete and up-to-date: Lyman and North. Bogue is up-to-date, but some of the background data is not complete. Withey and Cree are still being put together. Other buildings with student rooms and/or staff/faculty offices are on their way.

• Obtained blueprints for each building and floor from Green Mountain College's facilities department.
• Scanned these documents using the large-format scanner over at Castleton State College.
• Isolated each floor from these documents, using GIMP, an open-source image manipulation program.
• Georeferenced each isolated floor to Google Maps in QGIS(Satellite and Street layers).
• Vectorized each georeferenced layer in QGIS.
• Added housing and training data.
• Groundproofed the resulting vector layers for accuracy
• Stylized these layers using TileMill.
• Uploaded the stylized layers to MapBox.
• Presented this information on my Blogger account, using the MapBox template, "DC's Changing Landscape."

Many thanks to...

Professor John Van Hoesen, of GMC - for being so enthusiastic about my project and tolerating my endless stream of questions with answers both challenging and obvious.

Jorie Jarvis, formerly of GMC - for taking the initiative to get Safe(r) Zone rolling!

All the Safe(r) Zone participants - for supporting the LGBT and Queer community!

Glenn LaPlante, of GMC - for tolerating yet another student project and allowing me access to facilities' documents.

Timothy Grover, of CSC - for your help in working and accessing the large-format scanner.

Maryann 'Delaware' Arterbridge, of GMC - for accompanying me to a few tiresome map-scanning sessions and (I think) lending me your car.

All of my friends and family - for bearing with me as I excitedly show you version after version of the same map and try in vain to explain processes you don't really even want to try to comprehend.

Everyone who put work into GIMP, QGIS, TileMill, and MapBox - these products are fantastic and their potential nearly limitless.