Comments on: What are your favorite interactive news maps? http://www.contentious.com/2008/03/12/what-are-your-favorite-interactive-news-maps/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:37:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: contentious.com - Some REALLY cool news maps http://www.contentious.com/2008/03/12/what-are-your-favorite-interactive-news-maps/#comment-1216036 contentious.com - Some REALLY cool news maps Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:57:55 +0000 http://www.contentious.com/2008/03/12/what-are-your-favorite-interactive-news-maps/#comment-1216036 [...] when the information and connections all seem to be flowing. Anyway, thanks to my community here on Contentious, as well as E-Media Tidbits, Twitter, and the members-only discussion list of the Society of [...] [...] when the information and connections all seem to be flowing. Anyway, thanks to my community here on Contentious, as well as E-Media Tidbits, Twitter, and the members-only discussion list of the Society of [...]

]]> By: Ron Exler http://www.contentious.com/2008/03/12/what-are-your-favorite-interactive-news-maps/#comment-1216031 Ron Exler Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:06:04 +0000 http://www.contentious.com/2008/03/12/what-are-your-favorite-interactive-news-maps/#comment-1216031 Amy, See my entry "Super Tuesday, Lousy Maps?" at http://www.thegeofactor.com/2008/02/06/super-tuesday-lousy-maps/. There is definitely a huge variation in quality out there and unfortunately most people can't tell the difference between them. There are many aspects to making a good map - not only how pretty it looks but how one integrates data, where the data comes from, and the timeliness of the data. Some of the news organizations seem to have cartographic expertise necessary to do it well. Any time you want to discuss in more detail, let me know. Ron Amy,

See my entry “Super Tuesday, Lousy Maps?” at http://www.thegeofactor.com/2008/02/06/super-tuesday-lousy-maps/. There is definitely a huge variation in quality out there and unfortunately most people can’t tell the difference between them.

There are many aspects to making a good map - not only how pretty it looks but how one integrates data, where the data comes from, and the timeliness of the data. Some of the news organizations seem to have cartographic expertise necessary to do it well. Any time you want to discuss in more detail, let me know.

Ron

]]> By: Amy Gahran http://www.contentious.com/2008/03/12/what-are-your-favorite-interactive-news-maps/#comment-1215980 Amy Gahran Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:34:01 +0000 http://www.contentious.com/2008/03/12/what-are-your-favorite-interactive-news-maps/#comment-1215980 Thanks, Mark! Putting them into my list of cool examples now. - Amy Thanks, Mark! Putting them into my list of cool examples now.

- Amy

]]> By: Mark Schleifstein http://www.contentious.com/2008/03/12/what-are-your-favorite-interactive-news-maps/#comment-1215970 Mark Schleifstein Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:31:43 +0000 http://www.contentious.com/2008/03/12/what-are-your-favorite-interactive-news-maps/#comment-1215970 We published an interactive graphic accompanying our March 2007 series "Last Chance" about coastal erosion: http://www.nola.com/speced/lastchance/multimedia/flash.ssf?flashlandloss1.swf A year after Katrina, we published an interactive map showing how the rebuilding effort was going: http://www.nola.com/katrina/wide.ssf?/katrina/graphics/flashrebuild.swf At that same time, we published another interactive map showing how the city actually flooded during Katrina: http://www.nola.com/katrina/wide.ssf?/katrina/graphics/flashflood.swf We published an interactive graphic accompanying our March 2007 series “Last Chance” about coastal erosion:
http://www.nola.com/speced/lastchance/multimedia/flash.ssf?flashlandloss1.swf

A year after Katrina, we published an interactive map showing how the rebuilding effort was going:
http://www.nola.com/katrina/wide.ssf?/katrina/graphics/flashrebuild.swf

At that same time, we published another interactive map showing how the city actually flooded during Katrina:
http://www.nola.com/katrina/wide.ssf?/katrina/graphics/flashflood.swf

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