Los Angeles Times: Databases, Lists, Maps, Rankings - Data Desk
Thursday, 27 November 2008, 16:23
The LA Times' data desk's server: "Maps, databases and other resources that help you dig deeper."
Bournemouth Echo: Collapse of High Street legend
Thursday, 27 November 2008, 10:50
Very nice use of Google Maps at the Bournemouth Echo, using it to illustrate where local Woolworths and MFI stores are located. Good to see maps used on a standard news story rather than a larger standalone feature.
EDP24: Local Business Directory
Sunday, 23 November 2008, 13:43
Map-based local business directory from Archant, similar to their property sites.
Spod.cx: Leaked BNP Member List Map
Wednesday, 19 November 2008, 13:54
"I have decided to take down the map. Many people have commented that the map does give a false impression of accuracy, despite my making this clear, and I'm tempted to agree. I do not want to single anybody out and by removing the accuracy from the map it is possible that it ends up incorrectly implying a property contains a BNP member. It has been suggested that an inaccurate map that doesn't make that clear is worse than publishing the list itself, and I think that's a reasonable comment."
Techcrunch UK: Updated: BNP member list mashed with Google maps creates a sea of red dots, but dangerously inaccurate
Wednesday, 19 November 2008, 13:49
Mike Butcher: "I speculated on Twitter this morning that a mashup which identified the actual locations of BNP members would be highly problematic, and possibly even subject to vigilante attack. …."
Adrian Monck: The British National Party - a mash-up challenge
Wednesday, 19 November 2008, 11:46
Adrian Monck issues a challenge following the leak of the BNP membership data which touches on the ethics of geocoding sensitive datasets: "who’ll be first to mash up the data and produce a map of the membership? You ought to be able to do it without revealing personal details."
MediaGuardian: Monkey goes to the Society of Editors conference
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 19:34
"Guardian News & Media editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger had an embarrassing admission to make during the presentation of the NCTJ awards for excellence in journalism at the Society of Editors bash in Bristol. "I should not really be doing this," Rusbridger told the room, "because I failed my NCTJ exams." Blimey - there's hope for us all."
Election maps
Thursday, 6 November 2008, 22:12
Some election maps that are far more interesting than the typical red-state, blue-state stuff.
Google Maps Mania: UK Media Using Google Maps
Sunday, 26 October 2008, 12:28
"[ITN] have created a news map that delivers news based on the user's location. The map uses the Google Gears Geolocation API to determine the user's location and then serves up news for that region."
Belfast Telegraph: Northern Ireland Crime Map
Thursday, 23 October 2008, 20:03
Mapping criminal activity by ward from NISRA Statistics.
Inside Guardian.co.uk: guardian.co.uk goes geotagging and gets Google maps
Saturday, 11 October 2008, 12:57
Paul Carvill: "We have published our first article containing geolocation data! We introduced this feature in the US Elections blog pages to track our reporters as they travel with the presidential election campaigns. On those pages you can see a Google map with the points marked where our reporter wrote a blogpost. … . We are using the GeoRSS Simple location encoding standard."
Yorkshire Post: Petrol prices fall: Check our interactive ‘best value’ map
Friday, 10 October 2008, 17:45
"Supermarketgiant Tesco said it was cutting the cost of petrol by 3p a litre today as oil prices fell to their lowest level for a year. Use our interactive map to find the lowest prices across Yorkshire. Just drag and zoom the map to see your town…"
BBC News: Magazine: The High Street
Friday, 10 October 2008, 16:47
Nice multimedia feature from the BBC News Online Magazine. "What began as a credit crisis in banking now seems to have spread to other parts of the economy, with some experts saying the UK is already in recession. But how is it affecting shopkeepers? We visited Shirley High Street in Southampton"
LiverpoolEcho.co.uk: News in Merseyside
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 17:33
The Liverpool Echo's new geocoded news stories.
