Last Saturday, I was talking to a recent UNH alum who knows quite a bit about Google Maps. I already knew that there are a number of useful applications for the web mapping technology, but I didn't fully know the extent to which it is being utilized. One of the websites that came up in conversation was Google Maps Mania Blog. The blog lists 100 useful, interesting, or just plan random map applications mashed-up with the original Google Maps. I know that some online media outlets are using mapping technologies to organize information, but the list on the maps mania blog at least allows one glimpse how journalists can use Google Maps as a way to provide relevant, organized, and specific information in one locale. A specific example of Google Maps being used to organize BBC reporters, their locations, and stories is here.
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I really like the way that mapping stuff gets used here. I don't know if you have a Wii or if you've ever fiddled around with one, but there's a News channel on it where you essentially get a big globe that you can spin around and zoom in on for regional news (AP of course). It's pretty badass.
I wish more news websites would do something as intuitive to navigate as this; if I only want news from Copenhagen, easy as zooming in!
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