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What’s up with Google maps?
I’m looking for help with, or at least an explanation for, why I can’t create a Google map — something I’ve done a number of times before. I spent the better part of last night and this morning on it,...
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Mapping a class project
I love this. My Reinventing the News class has put together a Google map of their favorite places within a mile of Northeastern. Each student wrote a blog post, took some pictures and then plotted it...
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Boston in red and blue
Robert David Sullivan has a fascinating piece in the Boston Globe today on Eric Fischer, who has plotted on maps of Boston (left) and other cities where tourists (red) and residents (blue) take photos...
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Sandy and the power of news maps
Click on image for full interactive map at BostonGlobe.com We were lucky up here on the North Shore — we got lots of wind and plenty of rain from Sandy, but very little damage. We lost power for about...
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A remarkable example of digital journalism
I’ll have much more to say about the Boston Globe’s remarkable “68 Blocks” series on life and death in the city’s Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood. For now, I just want to lay down a marker. Not only is “68...
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“68 Blocks” is a triumph of narrative and digital journalism
Part of the “68 Blocks” Instagram project The timing was serendipitous. As the media swarmed around Newtown, Conn., following last Friday’s horrifying massacre, some observers were beginning to ask why...
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