By Mindy McAdams
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An interactive map graphic from USAToday.com: “Sun Belt’s population grows as Gulf Coast suffers.”
Make sure you click the Louisiana area and roll over the counties. This is how a graphic tells a story!
It’s relevant, it’s important, and who else but a newspaper would ever do this much work in the public interest?
Read about how they [...]
Even though it’s freezing here in north-central Florida tonight, the Major League Baseball spring training season is about to begin. Boston.com built a neat package for all those die-hard Red Sox fans: Fan’s Guide to Fort Myers.
It includes three Google maps that use the free Atlas application to pinpoint sites of interest. A unique feature [...]
Did Chris Strimbu — longtime interactive news designer — leave the Los Angeles Times? That appears to be the case from this very well-designed graphic online at Yahoo! News:
Minimum Wages Worldwide
Lovers of factoids will enjoy this graphic a lot. As someone pointed out on the ONA Listserv, though, there isn’t a heck of a lot [...]
The nice folks at Faneuil Media have just updated Atlas, the free online map-making tool. Now you can:
Create a high-quality online map in a few seconds
Embed a map on your Web page in any size or format
Allow readers to plot comments and photos on maps (can you believe this? Is this amazing?)
Download your data in [...]
Rick Burnes concludes that the answer is not exactly clear. I had thought it was okay as long as you do not charge people to look at the stuff using the maps. But as Rick points out, that may not be the whole story.
Update: Rick got a clarification from Google Maps — it’s okay to [...]
Kudos to The New York Times, which used Google Maps to create a three-year (2003-2005) map of homicides in the five boroughs of New York City. The idea is copied from Adrian Holovaty’s award-winning Chicago Crime site, but that’s okay.
If a newspaper is going to provide a crime map today, this is the way to [...]
NPR ran a nice story yesterday about a blog that tracks interesting applications of Google Maps. One example is a map of local murders from the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.
I’ve been encouraging one of our master’s students to work on a project linking a map to a database of local education statistics. This student has [...]
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