Chris Hokanson, multimedia editor at the Texas A&M Battalion, e-mails to showcase some map integration from Aggieland. They’ve done the crime map, but I find another example more interesting. Pictured above is the Atlas map showing locations for Aggie Musters (link to the map). That’s a lot of Aggies.
For a college media outlet, it suggests a heightened sense of the web readership, which is different from the campus readership for the paper. I wonder what the off-campus former-student traffic is for the Battalion? Given the rich Aggie tradition, I’d guess it’s pretty high.
But using tools like these to provide information for these readers is something we all should be considering. Is there a similar way to use maps or databases to provide information for your off-campus readers?
on Apr 25th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
We just published a story on apartment rental prices around our University and I created a map to show the locations and average prices of the complexes. I asked a reporter to do some additional reporting to get some more figures to add to the map that weren’t in the story.