Interactive City Map

Interactive City MapFor a Core course covering several pieces of literature set in St. Petersburg at different periods, students were able to view overlaid maps and other comparisons between the storylines of the various works. Since the city's neighborhoods and important sites have names from the Soviet and Imperial eras, seeing this information combined was particularly important. Built in Flash and using the Zoomify add-on component for Flash, the interactive map technology could be reused for other similar applications. The maps were stored as images, and the descriptive information was stored in XML files that were read by the Flash application.