The House Jacks' Spring 2008 European Tour

This map project shows the venues where the a cappella rock band, The House Jacks, performed on their 2008 Spring European Tour. As a member of the band, I had the opportunity to travel all over Germany and parts of Switzerland and Austria, experience the culture of all those different regions, and perform in a variety of different kinds of venues. The tour consisted of 17 concerts in 17 days in 17 different cities, and often times there required quite a bit of driving from one show to the next.

The map has markers for Frankfurt Airport and every town where The House Jacks performed a concert. The concert markers are labeled with letters in the order that the concerts occurred. There are also lines following the route taken from every city to the next, with a color classification based on the time it takes to travel on that route. Clicking on a marker will show photos and give info on the happenings of that day.

The map is also animated, starting with a blank map and gradually adding each day's venue and travel in order to give the map reader a better sense of the sequencing than given by the lettering on the city markers. By implementing the animation, the user gains a more comprehensive sense of the magnitude of the travel that occurred on this tour with much less time and effort that it would take on a static map.

For a KML file containing the project map for The House Jacks' Spring 2008 European Tour, right click and save here

If you don't have Google Earth, you can view a simple map in Google Maps by clicking here

A tabular listing of concert cities and venues for this tour can be seen by clicking here