That's very impressive! I recommand everyone of you to have a visit to the link below:
http://www.useoul.edu/images/map/main.html
Just for comparison, you can visit the map website of Nortwestern:
http://aquavite.northwestern.edu/maps/
On the Seoul Univ.'s map, the name of the building emerges when your cursor hover on its image. And the campus is divided into several parts, you can easily visit any parts of the campus by just clicking the image and a street view will pop out naturally. If you are a student looking for the classroom by the number on your class schedule, or you are inquiring the schedual of the shuttle bus, you can find your anwser easily by easily searching it in the search box on the bottom. There are many other differnt ways for searching as well. It even provide the route for disable students. How nice it is!
The whole interface is clean and dynamic, the layout is fixed(the northwestern website will change the layout when you click the map), and the animation between different scene will release user's impacience during the loading time.
However, I think there are still some place need improvement. 1. when I choose an area of the campus, it is hard to find the main map button(which is located on the top). In my opinion, since the user can see where they are and choose where to go from the mini map on the upper-right of the page view, the main map button should also be placed on the mini map too.2. on the bottom-right, the "search by" part, there are a drop box and 2 buttons, actually they are equal relationship and are grouped together, however, different form hardly imply that they are equal relationship, which would cost mental load for the user to specify the function of these buttons and the drop box.
I hope one day the interface of Northwestern campus map website can be, at least the same good as that of Seoul National University.
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