New Maps:
New York Times: Murder Mapping in the Five Boroughs - The New York Times made this article interactive by Google Mapping 3 years of NYC police department homicide data. After choosing boroughs each pin represents an individual or multiple homicide showing victim's race, the suspect, the relationship and motive for the murder.
FloridaToday.com: Space Launch Sites Mapped - Florida Today has included an interactive Google Map on their site which maps space launch sites at Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral. It includes a database of every launch since the dawn of the space age, shuttle and rocket launch video and images, and video tours inside facilities people usually don't get a chance to see guided by its space reporters. It also has an enhanced 3D Google Earth version you can download as well. This is a great example of a newspaper using its historical archive to create a maps mashup for visitors from all around the world. A local news outlet now has international reach (perhaps with new advertising opportunities) thanks to Google Maps.
Other recent examples:
- Express (Washington DC): city and transit guide mashup
- Asktheworld.org: Mapping the location of 24 April 2006 Bomb Blasts in Dahab, Egypt
- ChicagoCrime.org - The grand-daddy of Google Maps mashups and recognized by winning the $10,000 Grand Prize in the Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism. The creator Adrian Holovaty has since been hired by the WashingtonPost.com.
- National Public Radio (NPR): Mapping your local station coverage
- German mapping site GIS-News displays the following graphic at the bottom of each location based story: [
] Here are 3 examples of it (see bottom of each story)
- Major nuclear accidents and disasters
- The trip of two UK residents abducted to Guantanamo with MI5 help
- These US cities want to bring US soldiers home
- Major oil spills since 1960
- Iran nuclear facilities
- A zoom on the Bushehr nuclear power plant
- CIA secret prisons in Europe
- Black Sea tensions between Ukraine, Georgia and Russia
- Mohammed Cartoons riots
- (All above examples from LastingNews.com)
- FIFA 2006 World Cup
- Global Avian Flu Outbreak
- Volvo Ocean Yacht Race Tracker
- Torino Olympic Mashups
- Iraq War US Casualties
- Muhammad Cartoon Riots
- Canadian Federal Election
- 2005 Atlantic Rowing Race
- Pakistan Earthquake locations
- London Bomb blasts
- Track Int'l Space Station
- Transpac Long Beach - Honolulu Sailboat Race
- Running with the bulls injuries
- John Udell vlogs about floods in his hometown of Keene, NH and uses Google Maps in his screencast.
- Google News Map
- Washington Post World News Map
- Associated Press News Mashup
- BBC World News Map
- Spiegel Germany News Map
- Global Ocean News Map
- Newsvine World News Map
2 comments:
Here are a few more from the Toronto Star in Canada:
Science reporter Peter Calamai spent some time in the Arctic, filing to his blog on the Toronto Star website - this is a map supplement:
http://tinyurl.com/jcn22
The actual diary is here: http://tinyurl.com/lugy4
Investigative piece on derailments recently had two Google Maps - one mapping 41 derailments, the other 350. See right-hand sidebar here: http://tinyurl.com/zlec7
The newspaper I work for in North Caroilna, the Winston-Salem Journal, put up a small map app that displays all the places in North Carolina you can buy a lottery ticket. It's at http://lotterymap.journalnow.net .
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