Eureka! No More Mylar Maps

Headline: Small rural county comes to rescue of small rural city.

Eureka Springs Arkansas looks like they won’t have to use mylar maps anymore. Carroll County in which Eureka Springs is located is willing to help replace some out-dated maps. According to the Lovely County Citizen (yes, that’s the name of the newspaper), the county has a contract with a Little Rock firm to fly and map the region and is willing to offer digital data to the city. With the commentary we received on our blog post on Cass County Indiana, it’s nice to hear of a situation in which sharing and support can work the other way too.

Podcast: The Democratic Convention’s Texting Map

It’s not news that the Obama campaign has been a great user of technology up to this point. Last week, at the Democratic National Convention, the campaign used live maps to engage, enable and incite its supporters. We look at what was so special about this use of maps, why it worked and how the basic idea might be used elsewhere.

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