Where have Atlas forumers been? (collaborative map)

[muon2]

I like the idea. Since I have over 1600 counties (and will have over 1700 by the end of summer), it probably is easier if I add mine later since fewer counties will need editing. One thing I wasn't clear on is the color scheme. If a county is colored by one person as stopped at - the yellow color, and the editor also only traveled through it, I should leave it alone. If the editor has also stopped there it be darkened one shade to brown. Right? If two people have already stopped there does it just stay that way until some one has either visited or lived there?

BTW this is my current map. I use slightly different colors and I don't distinguish between drove through and stopped for routine things like gas and food, but I do distinguish between whether or not I slept there.

[muon2]

Yeah, I don't get the color scheme at all. Are the 4 levels travel, stop, stay over night, and live, and a county only gets darker when a poster has had a higher level of nexus to the county than the existing color on the map?

that's what I'm gonna assume the 4 tiers mean. think the darker shades mean multiple Atlas members.

It seems to me to be a level of nexus issue. For example, I have lived in LA County, Cook County, Washtenaw County, MI, Orange County, CA, and Columbia County, NY. I assume I would color all those counties the darkest color since I have lived in those counties. The number of posters at a given level of nexus would not be relevant. The generator of the OP can explain further if I have it wrong.

I don't want to speak for the OP, but here's the way I interpreted it. There is a 2x4 matrix of choices. Each row corresponds to a different status level, such as lived in, or traveled through. The columns represent whether there was a single response or multiple responses at that status level. One member at a higher status level takes precedence over multiple members at a lower status level. Then again, I could have it all wrong.

[muon2]

I don't know every county I've been to.

When I started tracking this I was in my 20's. I began with the counties I lived in and the ones I remember that I slept in (visiting relatives, vacations, school trips, etc.). I then added the counties where I remember we visited someone or something, but didn't sleep there. If it took a drive to get to a destination, I assumed that we took the most direct route and determine the counties we passed through.

If you do that it will be a pretty good map to start from.

I'll be down in southern IL today looking at parks in the eclipse zone. I expect to add two or three counties, and change the status of others.

[muon2]

What is holding me back is figuring out all the counties that the highways I have traveled go through. Ouch!

indeed

The tool http://mob-rule.com/gmap-dd takes a route between destinations and uses Google Maps to plot it with overlaid counties. Moving the cursor shows which counties the route transects. The analysis button generates the list in text.