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Interactive Maps
These examples show how
Google Maps and similar software has been put to use for news
reporting.
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The
Cincinnati Enquirer - CinciNavigator
While
other news sites are focusing on single topics for their map
features, The Enquirer created a one-stop shop for a bevy of
mappable data. Users can search by location for live traffic,
crime data, smoking complaints, property
sales, dog licenses and
new
businesses,
among
other
things.
Even the paper's
news
stories
are "geo-coded" by neighborhood and
are viewable
on
the
map.
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Sunlight
Foundation - Earmark Map
Want
to know what the $1/2 billion in earkmarks from a single appropriations
bill is doing for your community? The sunlight foundation has plotted
1753 of 1810 earmarks from the Labor, Health and Human Services
Appropriations Bill and 477 of 553 earmarks from the Housing and
Urban Development Bill. Check the map to see what effect the money
has had on your area.
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Bakersfield.com - Interactive Maps
Bakersfield.com's
interactive maps initiative includes staff produced maps and collaborative
maps in which citizens get involved in the process. Readers can
add data, photos or video which are embedded in the maps. Among
the offerings are maps of cameras shooting red-light violators,
maps of potholes, local graffiti, night-life hot spots and local
quirks such as the oldest elevator in town.
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(South Africa) - News Map
By using Google Maps technology, News Map lets the user select any
area in the world. Then the user is presented with a list of
relevant stories for
that region, generated from Yahoo! News. The site is run in South
Africa but users can search for stories all over the globe. |
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FKKC (Netherlands) - MappedUp
MappedUp takes news items from a wide array of RSS feeds and displays
them on a world map represented by dots. Red and yellow dots
appear on the map as new news is generated and headlines are displayed
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Middletown's
Times Herald-Record's
"Record Gas Watch"
The
newspaper's recordonline.com,
based in New York, urges readers in the Hudson Valley and Catskills
region to submit the highest and lowest gas prices they see, then
posts them on a Google
Map with arrows pointing to where the stations are
located. Clicking on the arrows gives the user the price per gallon,
the address of the station, the date that the price was last updated,
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| ChicagoCrime.org
ChicagoCrime.org
offers a browsable database of 90-days of crime incidents and locations
in the Chicago area. It was created by Adrian
Holovaty, editor, editorial innovations, washingtonpost.com.
He used Google
Maps and
data from the Chicago Police Department's Citizen
ICAM. Users can also find which day had the most and
fewest crimes, which crimes are most reported and which locations
experience the most crime. Also offered are RSS feeds specified
for each police beat and city block. |
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