Online Journalism Blog: Getting full addresses for data from an FOI response (using APIs)
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 11:47
How to use the Google Maps API and Google Refine to geocode and improve partial addresses in a dataset.
Press Gazette: Thelondonpaper to expand online map with local business listings
Thursday, 20 August 2009, 16:11
Just stumbled across one of my old cuttings… Guess this type of local data project for London is now up for grabs…
SearchEngineLand: Land Grab: Google Expands Real Estate Listings
Monday, 6 July 2009, 21:48
"… newspapers and other classified ad providers … please meet your new neighbor: Google.com. Google has expanded its real estate listings and added extra search functionality for users to find property listings in Google Maps."
Google Maps Mania: Mapping LA Crime
Thursday, 9 April 2009, 07:40
"This Google Map from the Los Angeles Police Department’s (LAPD) E-policing program shows up-to-date crime statistics for neighborhoods throughout LA."
Guardian: Google Maps reveals disparity in neighbouring MPs’ expenses claims
Saturday, 4 April 2009, 05:42
"A Guardian project using Google Maps has revealed differences of up to £20,000 in neighbouring MPs' travel expenses. … The MPs' travel expenses data was transformed into an easy-to-read Google Map by Tony Hirst, a lecturer at the Open University and Guardian reader. He picked up the figures from the paper's website as part of Data Store, the Guardian's unique experiment in allowing its readers access to key sets of data."
Google Maps: Britain’s independent local blogs
Monday, 23 February 2009, 12:26
Justin Williams' map of independent local news sites in the UK.
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.
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."
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."
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."
LiverpoolEcho.co.uk: News in Merseyside
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 17:33
The Liverpool Echo's new geocoded news stories.
MediaGuardian.co.uk: Trinity Mirror to launch map-based news service on regional websites
Wednesday, 1 October 2008, 17:31
"Trinity Mirror has launched a map-based news service on the Liverpool Echo website and plans to expand it across its other regional sites. The site will geo-tag news stories so users can search for news stories via postcode."
