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Locating the story: The latest in mapping.

Locating the story: The latest in mapping

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.

Escape from Google Maps

  • 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

That said, Google Fusion Tables

  • Google Iowa Caucuses
  • WYNC election results
  • LAT twin maps

Census 2010

  • Dot-density maps, like NYT and ChiTrib
  • The Migurski your map thing

Before/after maps for disasters

  • 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.

Other things I don’t know how to file yet, plus award winners

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