I’m going to be working with Kat on the mapping project for IDAT101, due in next month, and we’ll be starting a whole new thing, as opposed to me carrying on with what I originally started with Kane, Steve and Matt at the start of the last term.

While out for a walk yesterday I had a few thoughts about some ideas. First of all I considered something that maps time, rather than distance, in some way. Perhaps a map of one area, and the movement of birds across that area is charted, or we could do it with people walking around the Plymouth city center, although that’s a bit iffy. Then the idea hit me that any given coin or money note can travel around a city or even a country as it changes hands from person to person, and it might be interesting to chart this, drawing arrows between the marked points at which a hypothetical coin changes hands. Obviously it would be too hard to track a real coin. We could have several different maps, say of Plymouth, the South West and the UK, and use overlay sheets to add more points or possibly even more coins.