Why do the map pages include so many menus, rather than just showing map views?
The designers realized that the interfaces for many campus maps, including those at Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, MIT, Northwestern, Penn State,Princeton, Stanford, the University of Chicago, and the University of Florida were not particularly rich in search capability or menu links to campus locations. (The most extensive collection of campus tours and maps is at CampusTours.) Some campus maps, in fact, included no search capability. Since people typically search for popular locations, buildings and departments by name, the designers believed that including those choices on the pages as drop-down menus or in a keyword search produced the most useful interface.
