Where have Atlas forumers been? (collaborative map)

[DPKdebator]

Inspired by the trend I started a while back on AH.com, I'd like to create a collaborative map of all the counties Atlas forumers have been to.

The light color represents one person, the dark one means multiple. The "priority" of the colors goes from top to bottom, so if you've only visited a county one person has lived in, don't make it dark.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

how does this work ?

[DPKdebator]

how does this work ?

Just copy the image and put it into an image editing program such as Paint or GIMP. There's a little box with all the colors you need, and use them in all the counties you've lived in/visited/driven through/etc.

[DavidB.]

Is this only for the U.S. or for the whole world?

[DPKdebator]

Is this only for the U.S. or for the whole world?

I've only created a US map at the moment, but I can do a world map later on.

[Bakersfield Uber Alles]

I'm working on my additions. I should be done in half an hour or so. I've been to a lot of places out west.

Edit: I've been to every county in CA and NV. I've only been to some of the counties in NV just so I could say that I had been (Mineral, Esmeralda, and Lincoln).

[JustinTimeCuber]

Nowhere near exclusive obviously. The only subtle change is changing Portland OR (the county of it) to orange.

[Beet]

[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.

[Torie]

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?

[dax00]

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.

[Torie]

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.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Random think: is uploading county maps of places you've been the Atlas equivalent of posting food pics to Instagram?

[Torie]

How does one access the map template for this?

[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.

[Bakersfield Uber Alles]

How does one access the map template for this?

Click on Beet's map and make sure that you download the full resolution one (it's like 4000x3000) and then copy/paste it into MS Paint.

[Bakersfield Uber Alles]

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.

That's my interpretation as well.

[Illiniwek]

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.

That's my interpretation as well.

Yup this is it.

Does anyone have an idea of how to do this on a Mac?

[DPKdebator]

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.

That's my interpretation as well.

Yup this is it.

Does anyone have an idea of how to do this on a Mac?

GIMP has a Mac version.

Also, the interpretation of the colors is pretty spot on.

[Crumpets]

After my additions - I've been pretty much everywhere out west apart from Nevada, and seen a lot of the Acela corridor, but hardly anything in the South or Midwest:

[Figueira]

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

[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.

[Figueira]

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.

I could get a mostly accurate map just from thinking about my own memories, but there's a few I would miss.

[Torie]

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

[dead0man]

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

indeed