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If you’ve not yet read about or seen Mark Newman of the University of Michigan’s election maps or hisAtlas of the Real World: Mapping the Way We Live, All Things Considered provides an introduction.
The original vision for the mapping app, once named GeoMonkey, (that’s still the name of the company, Q&A) was as a social networking app. But that didn’t pay the bills for its creators, students at the University of Washington, Vancouver. So the app was updated and renamed as Mapwith.us. One use is as a community mapping site, where users can save their own maps and post photos and the like to them from GPS-enabled phone apps (iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Java).
The second use, is more interesting: an app to map news of professionals and citizen journalists.
