Google mapping in the newsroom part 1

Google mapping tools in the newsroom

Part 1Highway Africa 2010

Compiled and presented by Jackie Rajuai

Google Geo Products

Google Maps

Geo-political maps of the globe, satellite imagery and hybrid views. Locates points of interest, roads/highways, traffic, streetviews and can be used to find directions from Point A to Point B

Google Panoramio Explore places through photography; organize photos with tags

Google Earth Fly over Earth's terrain and view satellite imagery, 3D views; dive into the oceans or gaze into far off galaxies

Google SketchUp

Create, modify or share 3D models

Google Map Maker

Map the world. You can now map 181 countries!

Google products that can enhance the experience of Geo products

Gmail

YouTube: Host related videos

Picasaweb: Host photos

Docs: For online collaboration between journalists in different parts of the world

Forms: To gather information from Citizen Journalists

What YOU can do with these

Google geo products help answer the "where" question in presenting information/newsGeo products can be used to:

aggregate news through active involvement of readers/citizen journalists generate interactive news content provide a way to access localized content quickly cover news on disasters/conflicts/wars make travelogues more meaningful and interesting report on crime distribution, weather patterns, traffic news, commodity prices

Geo products provide easy-to-use interfaces that can be used to create mash-ups, combining information/news from different sources and presenting it in a more organized fashion

Aggregate

Enable and leverage Citizen Journalism

Analyze

Organize data through geo-coding

Build stories, investigative reports - disaster coverage, crime distribution

Present

Localize content Visualization of

information/news - driving home the importance

Interactive and engaging interface

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Google Maps Basics


Virtual Tourism with Street View


Mash-ups and User-Generated Content

Maps on Mobile

With Google Maps for mobile, you don't have to ever use a paper map, while benefiting from a lot of other handy

features

My Location

Buzz

Driving Directions

StreetView

Latitude

Layers

Features


Google Earth


Google Confidential and Proprietary

Google Earth Layers


Sky & Ocean in Google Earth


Google Earth in Your Broadcast

Quick Note on Press Permissions*

All uses of Google Maps and Google Earth must provide attribution to Google and our content providers similar to what is shown to the users of our products today.

Unlimited Broadcast Use:If you use Google Maps / Google Earth imagery in a film or broadcast on TV for an unlimited number of times over a period of one year or more, you must obtain special approval from us.

Google use by Media Houses

Print and Online:

Aggregation - Citizen Journalism

Ushahidi

Ushahidi is a Open Source Platform that was initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya through the collaboration of Kenyan citizen journalists during the 2007 Kenyan Elections


Oil Spill Crisis

Louisiana Bucket Brigade, an environmental NGO, implemented the Ushahidi Platform to depict incidents and news related to the Deep Horizon oil spill that are reported by Citizen Journalists


CNN iReport CNN has a User

generated section called iReport, which hosts stories submitted by users

It uses a Form

based interface to enable citizens to submit their stories

464,197 stories

submitted so far, of which 28,687 have been vetted

Analysis

Disaster Coverage - Deep HorizonThis map from Google not only presents the impact of oil spill but also enables Citizen Journalists to contribute news from their localities

Analysis

Disaster Coverage - SanDiego wildfires 2007 interactive map Urban

Tribune used a novel way to update information and provide real-time news on the spread and impact of the 2007 SanDiego wildfires

Geo products are now widely used for disaster management and providing critical news to affected areas/people

Presentation

NY Times News Layer on Google Earth

User Convenience

National Public Radio - USA

Maps the coverage of its near-800 member stations, so that users can locate and tune in

The future...

Sorting of content geography-wise o On-the-spot news snippets by journalists/citizen journalists (through

mms/sms) can be geo-tagged, categorized and presented on a map

Freelance and Citizen journalismo Google Maps API can be used to integrate maps into journalists' own

websites/blogs to organize content better, make them more interactive and thereby increasing traffic

o Using Google Forms to gather news from Citizen journalists

Using the Cloudo Google apps (email, docs, youtube etc) for online collaboration from

anywhere (Ground Zero - Disaster/War zones; Newsroom) and a host of devices (smart phones, net/note books, kindle/iPad)

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