Writing on maps- Sara Ach

Project 1:
The overall sense I got from the project was that it was detailed and thorough. I could tell that the author did spend a lot of time planning and researching, and it was clear she picked the sites that she did for a reason. They were all spread out around New York, which again showed that the author did her research. I enjoyed the theme of the project, as well, and specifically loved that with every different spot I clicked on, there were multiple different pictures of magnificent art that showed some of the culture that she was talking about. I also liked that she wrote an excerpt before all of the labels, just to give an overview of the project instead of jumping into each location.
This model could possibly be effective for me, but while I did like and enjoy it, I feel like it is a better model for studying an entire city, and not for mapping out small areas like we will be doing.

Project 2:
This project seemed to look much more at famous, more mainstream places than the previous one did. The places were not as spread out, and while the author clearly spent time researching the history of them, I felt as though because they were all famous places, it somehow became a little less interesting. While that subject is intreging, and there were many interesting facts in the project, I did not enjoy it as much, as I felt like I did not get an overview of New York, but rather famous places in a certain part of New York, Manhatten.
I did enjoy the layout she presented on the side, it was very clear and organized and made it easy for me to navegate, a technique that I think would be useful for me to incorperate into my project.

Project 3:
While it was clear the author did his or her work, I enjoyed this project less. It did not have an overview before all of the different spaces we could look at, so I came to it and automatically became disengaged, as there was no way of telling what the overall topic of this project was. The author did of course spend much time on this, as can be seen in the detailed descriptions of each place, but once again without the overview of it, it was automatically less interesting to me.
I feel like this model would be a less effective model than the first one.

Project 4:
This project seemed to be pretty similar to all of the other ones to me, except for the layout if it. Instead of using the markers that google maps automatically gives to him or her, the author changed them to be images that fit with the place he was marking and writing about. I enjoyed this, and although it did make it a little harder to find on the map, it was a great way engage the reader and allow them to chose what they want to look at without having to go back and forth between the map and the side legend. That part of the model would be very effective for, I believe. This map was similar to the first one, as they were both investigating the arts, and it showed as they both listed a couple of the same places. I still enjoyed it, and liked that it was spread out over all of NYC and not just one section of it.