M.V. Jantzen

The Mystery Incorporated blog is at http://www.mvjantzen.com/blog/.

I take public data and present it in interesting ways. I have worked with the Flickr API, the Google Maps API (both Maps JavaScript API Version 3 and the Static Maps API), the Google Chart Tools API, the Twitter API, and WMATA's Metro Transparent Data Sets API. Programs are written in PHP, HTML (and HTML5), CSS, and JavaScript.

JavaScript Games

• Concentration
• Hangman
• Mastermind

Apps using the Flickr API

• Photo Album - shows Flickr photos in a custom presentation
• This app also uses Google static maps to include custom maps
  • Daily Diary - a day-by-day Flickr photo album
• These apps use the Google dynamic maps, as well as OpenStreetMap
  • Trackr - create animated maps of Flickr photos
  • Mappr - a fun way to map your Flickr photos

Apps presenting WMATA data

• Metro Bus Stops (5.2 MB - be patient while loading) - This map shows all of Metro's 11,485 bus stops. The pins are shown in 32 colors, representing what WMATA's data set refers to as a "zone ID," though how to interpret this is still unknown. You can hover over a pin to see the name of the stop and the zone, or click on the pin to zoom to that location. There is also an input field where you can enter any valid location, as understood by the Google Maps API. Thus, you can enter addresses, zip codes (20007, 20009), or place names (Arlington, DC, Dupont Circle, etc)
• Metro Distortion Map - distorts the five Metro lines to illustrate the number of stops (and transfers) between stations. (See if you can figure out what pressing the R/O/Y/G/B keys does.)

My blog has posts on current projects, as well as the usual assortment of bloggy stuff.