"The Detroit Free Press is telling a fishy detective story with Intersect.
“It seemed perfect,” said Director of Digital Audience Development Stefanie Murray, who suggested that a Free Press reporting team use Intersect to chart their 13-day, seven-state effort to investigate the menacing northward invasion of Asian carp.
“One of the reasons we like Intersect is because it combines geolocation with live blogging and visuals,” Murray said. “Being able to put content against a map, and against a timeline, gives the news consumer more options.”"
Data-driven journalism from the NYTimes. via Len Witt.
"The People's Atlas" - a mapping application that allows users to connect locations on a google map. Could be useful for college media sites wanting an easy to use map application.
A service that allows anyone to "annotate" the web - requires Firefox or IE right now. Read more <a href="http://reinventing.collegemedia.org/index.php?id=360">here</a>.
Social media site that attempts to collect material based on geographic location. In early stages of development.
Description of the serious coding that can go into creating a Google Map mashup.
Washington Post article about map mashups. Helpful to see what others are doing in this space and how those ideas might be adapted by college media.
Compare maps among different online mapping services in a Flash environment. Pretty neat.
Community mapping basically puts the map in the hands of the crowd. Here's a roundup of some of these sites.
A nice built-in interactive map from the Daily Pennsylvanian by Emily Babay (via @dailypenn on twitter)
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