Interactive Maps and Image Maps

Paul Bradshaw Senior Lecturer, Online Journalism, Magazines and New Media, School of Media, Birmingham City University, UK (mediacourses.com) Blogger, Online Journalism Blog Maps

www.spokesmanreview.com/stormstories/

www.latimes.com/news/local/crime/homicidemap/ http://journalistopia.com/2007/09/06/journalistopias-online-crime-maps-directory/

http://nyc.everyblock.com/

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/survey/

Grantham Journal heron map

http://geosearch.metacarta.com/

Sky’s Big Picture map

More…
Telegraph’s A level results map
BBC Berkshire’s flood map
Hartlepool Mail’s ‘Plot the Pots’ and Plot the Grots’ maps
Sky’s Suffolk Murders map , fuel prices , etc.
Telegraph’s general and local election maps

Tools
Google Maps with…
Mapalist.com (pulls from Google spreadsheet)
Quikmaps (draw on a map)
Visualpin.com (geocode video)
Zonetag or Robogeo (geocode images)
Spreadsheet mapper
Nearby.org.uk – converts postcode to lat/long and lots else
Umapper.com – embeddable flash maps
Zeemaps – maps lists
Maptube.org – share, mix and mash maps
Openstreetmap.org – free, editable open source maps
FMatlas
HeatMapAPI.com
Dipity
Plazz.me – shorturls for locations
Twibble – geotag tweets on a GPS phone

Do something now
Brainstorm map ideas for your area
…
Go to Google Maps
Log on and start your map
Contribute to the map created by the editors

Image maps

ideas?

More
More links: http://del.icio.us/paulb/mapping
RSS feed of the week: http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/
Reading: Boczkowski: Digitizing the News, Chap 5

Paul Bradshaw Course Director, MA Online Journalism, School of Media, Birmingham City University, UK (mediacourses.com) Blogger, Online Journalism Blog [email_address]

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Interactive Maps and Image Maps

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