A collection of links for a NICAR 2012 presentation. It will suggest broad themes for the past year, and try to support them with examples from work in the field. This is a work in progress. Feel free to crap on it, or add your own ideas.
- Google changed the rules of the game. There are now usage limits. Read about them here
- TileMill, custom tiles, need examples
- Links to ranty blog posts from Nestoria guy and others
- One replacement is simple line maps drawn using HTML5 technologies like SVG, Canvas and VML. You saw this example a lot in election maps during the GOP primaries, like NYT, WaPo, HuffPo, LAT, Guardian, DM Register
- HTML5 can also do more print like graphics on top of maps, like here
- And it can be integrated with other HTML controls, like sliders, as seen here and here
- Google Iowa Caucuses
- WYNC election results
- LAT twin maps
- Dot-density maps, like NYT and ChiTrib
- The Migurski your map thing
- The NYT’s before and after maps of Japan’s tsunami were Facebook’s most shared news story of 2011
- When the disaster in Joplin happened, you saw maps by NPR, NYT, LAT, BuzzFeed, Daily Mail, Business Insider
- You know these things are traffic draws if Daily Mail and BusinessInsider bother to do them.
- Most of these examples rely on imagery released by Google Maps via their providers. If you want them, you need to get on the listserv.
- Our LATimes before an after Occupy LA photos is an interesting example of a different take. Also, throw in an example of a historical before and after.
- show some redistricting stuff. propublica, chitrib, etc.
- Die Zeit’s thingie
- NYTimes weirdo radioactivity threat map
- Guardian riot commute map
- California Watch app
- Opensource mapping, like OSM, Kibera, border, oil spill
- WashingtonPost occupy check ins
- Google Maps editor/explorer super viz