{"id":623,"date":"2023-06-04T21:28:17","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T02:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/?p=623"},"modified":"2023-06-04T21:29:45","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T02:29:45","slug":"mapping-options-for-librarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/2023\/06\/04\/mapping-options-for-librarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapping Options for Librarians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the spirit of #blogjune, I&#8217;m trying my darnedest to write a post every day this month, so the thoughts below about what I&#8217;d like to have in the way of mapping options for my library are more than a little dashed off. The service that would provide us detailed floor maps I&#8217;d like would:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>be relatively inexpensive (I&#8217;ll explain why in a later post)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>make the maps for us<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>let us use their online tools to update maps as often as like and in a manner that doesn&#8217;t require great technical expertise<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>let us embed map widgets in our website instead of making content live solely on the vendor&#8217;s domain<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>connect to the service to our physical holdings in our discovery layer to enable users to go from records to clear maps\/directions to the shelf location<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>be as usable in mobile displays as in larger ones<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>allow for maps to be reconfigured for printing in a manner suitable to their use on signs, posters, flyers, etc.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>offer QR codes for potential use with each version of a map we might need to generate (online or print)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>make it easy to convert the perspective of a map (change the angle or go to an overhead view)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>connect up with any room booking or event reservation service<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>offer options for those who rely on screen readers, Braille,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In a post I&#8217;ll work on later this week (maybe tomorrow), I&#8217;ll try explain why I&#8217;m not so sure it&#8217;s worth spending a fortune, though, for a mapping service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the spirit of #blogjune, I&#8217;m trying my darnedest to write a post every day this month, so the thoughts below about what I&#8217;d like to have in the way of mapping options for my library are more than a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/2023\/06\/04\/mapping-options-for-librarians\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/beatingthebounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}