I'm sure all of you are aware of the much discussed project in the works of Neighborhoods within AW's cities. Well, the graphical architecture of these neighborhoods have been forwarded in request to Arachne. There are simply TONS of posts on this topic, but for ideas on it's graphical presence, here are a few to catch up on:

Heraklias Post in Curia on Bryce's graphical ideas

Check out Bryce's Basic Map creation in MachuPicchu

Heraklia's expansion on Diantha's previous post-Maps

Another further bit on Interactive Maps to determine neighborhoods

jojo's forward of belzasshar's interactive babylonian city

Herky's Post condensing ideas for Neighborhood creation in general

yet another from Herky, linking to Vee's rl project, 'Londinium'

a great one from Sankhaare, including alot of discussion, and bringing up a link showing ancient homes in egypt (this could be handy)

justina's wonderful idea of streetsigns etc. graphical needs to be displayed in owners homes, i love this idea!

justina's initial idea of bringing the graphic request to us in Arachne and to Bryce's Virtual Archeology

What I am envisioning at this point..

Inside of one main board that acts as a group, meaning it holds different boards within, and threads within those..(housing all the Neighborhoods) in each city, an interactive map graphic or birdseye view of the city, with clickable areas leading to it's corresponding boardtopic. At the top of each corresponding board, a view of the street/area say from a low flying birds point of view (lol) as though you were standing on top of a large building overlooking a suburb. This graphic would also be clickable/interactive leading you to that streets corresponding thread, where you would chat with neighbours and discuss the trailer trash that are occupying the spot across from you, or the cheating wife down around the corner, or just general fun gossip. Once again, the graphic atop this thread would be clickable, interactive, and clicking on it would take you to the owners domus/per/etc..Where they would have a small graphic of that home.

Now all we are asked for is the graphic realization of this vision, meaning the interactive maps, the neighborhoods, the streets and the homes themselves. NONE of this is set in stone, no one has come up or agreed upon one central idea. So a good part of my vision of this will never actually exist, maybe only a portion of it. I invite you to create something either off my ideas, or in a creative vein all your own. I think that once we've come up with some examples, it could set some sort of framework for the rest to be created from.. and whichever example is chosen as being the best to work from will be the new standard. I wouldn't worry yet about creating something that graphically represents each AW city's ancient look, just one for now until the style/use is figured out by site admin. Each city may wish to have theirs a bit different too, as some cities are planning time framed neighborhoods to avoid incorrect grouping, but we can still come up with alterations after the fact.

I'm now asking for more input, graphical submissions, and ideas/advice from everyone in Arachne, and further guidelines/ideas from our site admin (Demi's, scribes) Ok? When it is done, if Arachne's hand is involved in it's creation, I've been told that we would be permitted (encouraged!) to display a small logo for Arachne declaring it Arachne-fied!

I realize we have alot of projects already on our plate right now (namely, hello folks lets get working on the homesite contests!!) but this is an offshoot, one for the Site, not just for Arachne, and create at your leisure.. I didn't want our full plate to put us at a disadvantage in being able to participate in this much discussed Neighborhood Project.