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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
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Virtual Tourism with Street View
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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
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Google Earth
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Google Confidential and Proprietary
Google Earth Layers
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Sky & Ocean in Google Earth
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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
Aggregation - Citizen Journalism
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
Aggregation - Citizen Journalism
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)