The Lt. Michael P. Murphy Navy Seal Museum (link) opened in March 2022. Ideum was contracted to create 4 touchscreen wall interactives and 1 mission map touch table application. I served as the software developer for the mission map interactive which runs on a 49” 4k Ideum Platform II touch table. The application dynamically pulls content from Google Sheets and media from Google Drive, which allows the museum staff to update and add additional missions to the exhibit. Missions are divided into 8 categories, allowing visitors to view Navy SEAL missions from specific periods of American history. As visitors select categories or individual missions, their respective locations become highlighted on the map. The map also pans and zooms to frame locations as large as the United States to as small as Iwo Jima. Handling this dramatic size difference between mission locations was the biggest technical challenge for this project. Surprisingly, Unity does not have native SVG support, but the size of rasterized map assets at the needed scale was prohibitive. Luckily there is an Unity Vector Graphics package that I was able to use SVG files for the mission map graphics.
