Various prototypes: the cutting room floor!

In this version, I wanted to see what the classmarks looked like as solid blocks of colour:

http://wwwnewdev.sussex.ac.uk/library/tim/maps-mobile/librarymap_with_array_classmarkblocks.php?location=b_classmark

Here is a version in which I indicate the shelving bay (a la Stackmap):

http://wwwnewdev.sussex.ac.uk/library/tim/maps-mobile/librarymap_with_array.php?location=d_classmark

A student forum immediately dismissed this idea as overkill.  They told me they just needed guiding to the general classmark area, and they could use their own intelligence from that point to get to the book.

For a while, I wondered whether I could use Google Maps for the floorplan images.  Below is a mock up of how that might have looked:

http://wwwnewdev.sussex.ac.uk/library/tim/maps-mobile/librarymap.php?location=p_classmark

I had hopes that I could use GPRS to deliver the whole floorplan concept: with users seeing their current location using their phone's position.  Background reading and experimentation on the current state of geolocation inside buildings persuaded me this was an aspiration to postpone for the still-distant future.