AFAIK, this is the first student media use of Atlas, the new mapping application. Ball State’s Daily News is now putting the police arrest reports on a map (channelling Chicagocrime.org, a bit?).
Check it out here: Interactive police arrest report. Anyone else doing something interesting with maps? Let me know.
And thanks to Rick Burnes for the tip.
on Jan 31st, 2007 at 4:41 pm
On a similar note, The Independent Florida Alligator has an Atlas-powered map of nine churches that were vandalized and robbed in north central Florida over a two-month period:
http://www.alligator.org/pt2/070131churches.php#map
And last semester we did a Google map for the Danny Rolling murders, without Atlas:
http://alligator.org/pt2/specials/rolling/map.html
on Aug 23rd, 2008 at 7:52 pm
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