I’m looking for someone — possibly an ITP student who may want to earn a bit of freelance money — for help with what I think would be a fairly modest project for the NYU Law website. We would like to feature a number of maps on the site along the lines of the one incorporated on this page that we posted last fall. As you can see, we just used off-the-shelf Google Maps software to create it. What we’d like to do now is create as more-sophisticated version (using Google Maps if appropriate, or other software if that proves better) that will allow individual NYU Law faculty members (or their assistants) to enter their own information, and then have the “pins” on the map indicate whether the information pertains to an upcoming event or one that has already taken place. In fact, I would like the pin to automatically change color once the information changes from future to past. It would also be great if users could search individual faculty members and have just those pins displayed. There are some other, probably less complicated maps we’d like to create, as well.
We don’t have a huge budget for this, but we could certainly pay something to someone who might help us customize an existing off-the-shelf product. And we would certainly look to him or her to offer advice and suggestions, too.
Thanks much.
Michael
Michael Orey
Public Affairs
NYU School of Law
914-330-5555