Irish Political Maps - New Website

[C. Flower]

Lovely site for information and political anoraking. Enjoy !


http://irishpoliticalmaps.blogspot.com/

[Baron von Biffo]

It would be so simple to have put A,B,C... or 1,2,3... alongside the colour coding on those maps to make them accessible to colour blind people. :mad:

This is a subject for the Things that annoy you thread.

[C. Flower]

It would be so simple to have put A,B,C... or 1,2,3... alongside the colour coding on those maps to make them accessible to colour blind people. :mad:

This is a subject for the Things that annoy you thread.

I'm about to email the site, so I will ask them if there is anything they can do about this.

When people cared about the cost of colour print, maps like that often used different black and white hatches, rather than colour.

[Baron von Biffo]

I'm about to email the site, so I will ask them if there is anything they can do about this.

When people cared about the cost of colour print, maps like that often used different black and white hatches, rather than colour.

:) The price of progress.

[JandK]

:) The price of progress.

Hi Baron

My apologies for the colour issue, it hadn't occurred to me in my rush to get things going.

Cass' post above got me thinking, would greyscale versions of the maps be a solution?

[Baron von Biffo]

Hi Baron

My apologies for the colour issue, it hadn't occurred to me in my rush to get things going.

Cass' post above got me thinking, would greyscale versions of the maps be a solution?

Don't worry about t JandK, it's one of my rant issues. Most of your audience will have no problem with it and you have provide the data in numeric form.

CF had the perfect solution above with her suggestion of different hatch patterns though I can understand how that would be less aesthetically pleasing.

[JandK]

Don't worry about t JandK, it's one of my rant issues. Most of your audience will have no problem with it and you have provide the data in numeric form.

CF had the perfect solution above with her suggestion of different hatch patterns though I can understand how that would be less aesthetically pleasing.

I've done a greyscale version of the Labour map, with a link to it given just over the colour map. Have a look at it and let me know if it's any better.

It's no problem at all, I'd like for everyone to enjoy the site as much as they can, so hopefully this will help people for whom the colour maps aren't the best.

Labour Party's first preference votes, 2002 - 2011 (http://irishpoliticalmaps.blogspot.com/2011/05/labour-partys-first-preference-votes.html)

[5intheface]

Great site for map nerds like myself.

Apart from the LONDONDerry bit that is! :D

[5intheface]

Hi Baron

My apologies for the colour issue, it hadn't occurred to me in my rush to get things going.

Cass' post above got me thinking, would greyscale versions of the maps be a solution?

Should have your side added to our blogroll Jandk.

[Baron von Biffo]

I've done a greyscale version of the Labour map, with a link to it given just over the colour map. Have a look at it and let me know if it's any better.

It's no problem at all, I'd like for everyone to enjoy the site as much as they can, so hopefully this will help people for whom the colour maps aren't the best.

Labour Party's first preference votes, 2002 - 2011 (http://irishpoliticalmaps.blogspot.com/2011/05/labour-partys-first-preference-votes.html)

Thanks for taking the trouble but it's about the same. If say I look at Laois/Offaly and try to see what box on the legend is right it could be either '1-4' or '5-9'.

The 'No Candidates' box on your 2002 map is 100% clear and unambiguous.

Sorry to be negative. :o

[JandK]

Thanks for taking the trouble but it's about the same. If say I look at Laois/Offaly and try to see what box on the legend is right it could be either '1-4' or '5-9'.

The 'No Candidates' box on your 2002 map is 100% clear and unambiguous.

Sorry to be negative. :o

No worries. I'll take another look at it.

[morticia]

Most colourblindness (1/10 caucasian males, 1/100 females) is of the red/green variety, caused by recombination of the two very similar red and green opsin genes on the X chromosome to create a hybrid gene.

It just means, practically, that shades of red and green in similar intensities are indistinguishable.

Blue and yellow are fine.... (frequency of blue colourblindness is about 1/3000 or less if I remember correctly, perhaps less).

Hope this helps in allowing some colour, in a colourblind friendly manner.

[Spectabilis]

Great site JandK. Thanks for the work

[Beacon]

Lovely site for information and political anoraking. Enjoy !


http://irishpoliticalmaps.blogspot.com/

Look here under political and religious demography
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/images/maps/maps.htm

here is an excellent one by Dr Sunil
http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/images/maps/map12.htm

maybe the above site could provide a link?