"The Banjax Crime Map is a map of crime in Northern Ireland. The data for the map comes from the Northern Ireland Neighbourhood Information Service (NINIS)."

Some interesting features on the new Mail & Guardian site: StoryPredictor suggests articles according to reader interests. NewsSwarm shows who is viewing articles. StoryHistory utility will save articles … Articles will be integrated with Google Maps.

"The Toronto Star’s new Map of the Week project has published a set of school vaccination maps which illuminates an ongoing measles outbreak in the Toronto metro area — the worst in more than a decade."

Following the crane collapse in Manhattan this week, the NY Times plots crane violations on a Google Map. This has recently been an issue in Britain as well. Somebody should do this story for London…

Ouch. Google Map showing US newspaper job cuts. 2,170 so far in 2008…

Track the helicopter used by the local TV news in Schaumburg, Illinois…

Google introduces Google Maps API for Flash.

"Wikipedia articles have been added to Google Maps. … Clicking on the ‘W’ tag will open an information window containing the Wikipedia article. Panoramio photos can also be turned on via the same ‘More’ button."

"The BBC have created a map for the London Mayoral election which allows users to predict who they think will win."

How to create a Google Map of photographs or news items in 35 minutes….

Several examples of the crime map genre, including a Borough-level crime map of London.

PDF of a Lawrence Journal-World presentation on building database journalism projects, including their recent piece on crime rates in university halls.

"This site displays the Associated Press U.S. National, Sports, Business, Technology and "Strange" news stories on top of Google Maps. The city/state from each news story is translated to a latitude/longitude point [and] then plotted on the map."