A Canadian paper now offers a map where readers can post details of where they see debris from the Japanese earthquake of 2011.
Now, The Province is offering an interactive map on its web-site where readers can post the sites where they find Japanese debris. Simply log on to theprovince.com/debris and follow the instructions.
- The Province
In the Horn of Africa, Somalia makes headlines, but often only because of drought, famine, crisis and insecurity. Al Jazeera launched Somalia Speaks to help amplify stories from people and their everyday lives in the region -- all via SMS.
Somalia Speaks is a collaboration between Souktel, a Palestinian-based organization providing SMS messaging services, Ushahidi, Al Jazeera, Crowdflower, and the African Diaspora Institute. "We wanted to find out the perspective of normal Somali citizens to tell us how the crisis has affected them and the Somali diaspora," Al Jazeera's Soud Hyder said in an interview.
It's great to see crowdsourced, geotagged news in one of the world's most challenged places.
- MediaShift Blog
Want to thank our troops? How about letting them know from where the greetings come? How about a crowdourced Thank You map? That's what the USO created.
- South Brunswick Patch
by Adena Schutzberg on 01/09 at 03:07 AM |
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by Adena Schutzberg on 07/29 at 03:00 AM |
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CNN will use Nokia mapping services, as it did for the recent royal wedding, and Nokia users will gain access to CNN's news.
- AP
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by Adena Schutzberg on 05/26 at 03:38 AM |
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We lauched NewsMap today...perhaps you've already seen it on our "yellow tab" on Directions Magazine. Our friends at Spatial Ideas developed this version of their LocoBuzz web mapping application specifically for us so that we could display our press releases and blog posts in a geographical index. I've been wanting to do this for years...kinda made sense for an online geospatial technology magazine to actually use a web map app in some way, no?
You'll note that we've released this in "beta" for now and we're interested in your feedback. But I encourage you to play around with its features.
For example (refere to image at right; click for larger graphic), the first thing you will notice is that there are a few symbols on the map with numbers in the middle. Keep clicking on the symbol (hopefully that's intuitive" and you'll zoom into the area of interest; more symbols may appear but hovering the mouse over the symbol will display a box with a brief caption of a press release or article. You'll see the headline and first few lines of the text. You can dismiss the box or click on the "newspaper" icon to go directly to the full version of the article; click the Facebook icon to post to Facebook.
You can also search for news. Use the search box to type in a word or phrase and it will search a 30-day archive of news. Check the "Get Latest Tweets" box and it will add tweets as well. Check the "Hide News" box to see only tweets. Check "Refresh" to bring you back to the original news selections.
At the bottom of the map is our news scroll for the past 24-hours. This will show you the latest news in the form of scolling boxes. Click the "i" icon to zoom into the location of the news and to display the news box. Click anywhere on the map and the scroll box turn into a single scroll line. Double-click the scroll line to go back to the scroll boxes.
For more information about the technology behind NewsMap, see our article today on our home page of Directions Magazine.
by Joe Francica on 03/14 at 12:07 AM |
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