Ball State gets the map on
January 25, 2007 in Look, Websites
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 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#m…
And last semester we did a Google map for the Danny Rolling murders, without Atlas:
http://alligator.org/pt2/specials/rolling/map.htm…
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