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.

[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.

[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.

[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.