Week 4: Design Exploration Concept

This week in class we presented our final Design Exploration Concept and submitted an A3 poster. Here is my final concept.

Early Australian Shipwrecks (-1900)

Concept

Early Australian Shipwrecks is a web app detailing shipwrecks on the Australian coast up to 1900. The concept is aimed at people interested in Maritime History, particularly early modern history.

The web app would consist of a marked up Google Map of shipwrecks around the Australian Coast. When you click on a particular spot. It brings up historical photos and newspaper articles through the Trove API.

Relevant Information

The Western Australian Museum has a website on its Shipwrecks with an API with relevant data at http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/maritime-archaeology-db/wrecks/map and http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/sandbox/. This would only be useful for part of the coast.

Wikipedia has a list of Australian Shipwrecks including dates and locations at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_of_Australia.

The Australian Government also has a page about Early Australian Shipwrecks, which is where the definition of up to 1900 comes from at http://www.australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/early-austn-shipwrecks.

Design Mock-up

Clicking on a particular article will bring up the details within the frame.

Map Research

There are many examples of maps displaying more detailed information on click. There was a notable style in having a ‘pop-out’ for this information, headed by Google maps and maps made with the Google Maps API.