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Map Hawk: January 2010
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Watching How the Media Communicates with Maps. Monday, January 18, 2010. National Media Scrambles with Maps of Haiti. As the geospatial community. Rushes into support rescue efforts with as much detail as possible, the national media has produced a variety of different maps to help tell the story. The WSJ has produced a series of three excellent, interactive maps. BEFORE AND AFTER: a satellite image base with point locations of major structures where you can view photos of before and after shots. Average...
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Map Hawk: New York Times Map of Chilean Earthquake Area Highly Confusing
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Watching How the Media Communicates with Maps. Monday, March 1, 2010. New York Times Map of Chilean Earthquake Area Highly Confusing. The New York Times. Badly bungled the map showing the region devastated by the massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Chile late last week. The Times shows two maps. Map that could have been misinterpreted for map of shake severity. The smaller inset map in the right hand map just serves to further confuse the reader. Usually, the New York Times. The Times of London.
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Map Hawk: December 2009
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Watching How the Media Communicates with Maps. Thursday, December 17, 2009. Show me the Map on Climate Change: Time Magazine Misses Opportunity. Page 60 of the December 14th issue of. Has a wonderfully useless map of Northern India that focuses on the small city of Leh. I visited Leh in 1979 and it is indeed on the top of the world. The focus of the. Will allow the public to download imagery, many for free, such as the November 15, 1972 image of Leh and the Ladakhi Himalaya above. Posted by Joe Francica.
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Map Hawk: Geography and Journalism
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Watching How the Media Communicates with Maps. Tuesday, July 12, 2011. The session for news media at the EsriUC was easy to miss because it was on Sunday associated with the Business Summit. But it's importance is tied to how geospatial information and technology enters an era of mainstream adoption. Suro asked, "How do we recover the sense of narrative in an era of data overload? He mentioned how the most common narrative structure is chronological and how there are a lot of stories that combine chronol...
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Map Hawk: November 2009
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Watching How the Media Communicates with Maps. Friday, November 6, 2009. Google Earth Tour Feature Helps CNN Tell Story of Ft. Hood Shooting. Posted by Joe Francica. Tuesday, November 3, 2009. New York Times Maps the City's Mayoral Election. All the news that fit to map! In their coverage of the New York City mayoral and city council elections this evening, the. Displayed a precinct-level map. Of the voting on their home page. Now, you wouldn't show the results at any other geographic level, right? It's ...
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Map Hawk: April 2010
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Watching How the Media Communicates with Maps. Wednesday, April 28, 2010. Job Losses in New York City Documented by Subway Ridership Map. The New York Times. Has created an interactive map. Posted by Joe Francica. Labels: mapping the news. Chinese Investments in Raw Materials Mapped by Forbes.com. Forbes.com created a graduated symbol map. The accelerated growth in the number of investments made over the past five years. The size of each investment. The amount of the investment. Posted by Joe Francica.
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Map Hawk: March 2010
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Watching How the Media Communicates with Maps. Thursday, March 25, 2010. Telegraph's Map Shows Political Battlegrounds in Upcoming UK General Election. Posted by Joe Francica. Tuesday, March 2, 2010. USA Today/USGS Maps of Chilean Earthquake Aftershocks Use Thematics Improperly. The map of aftershocks from the Chilean earthquake last week reveals the incredible number of strong quakes that continue to jolt the region. Unfortunately, maps produced by the USGS and picked up by USA Today. The New York Times.
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Map Hawk: February 2010
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Watching How the Media Communicates with Maps. Thursday, February 25, 2010. Afghan Offensive Mapped by Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal. Has developed an interactive map. That shows the locations of military clashes, shootings, and other related violence on a daily basis. Tool tips provide the details of each incident and the viewer can navigate by a calendar. The recent offensive on the city of Marjah begins on February 13th and the reports from that area become more detailed. Some of the we...
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Map Hawk: September 2009
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Watching How the Media Communicates with Maps. Wednesday, September 30, 2009. More Kudos for CNN on Somoan Tsunami Coverage. Chad Meyers of CNN provided a stellar, "on-air" explanation of subduction zones while describing the earthquake that generated the tsunami in Somoa and American Somoa. Maps and other reports. Posted by Joe Francica. Tuesday, September 29, 2009. Imagery of New Iranian Nuclear Site at Qum Raises Questions. And other media outlets released imagery. The imagery reveals excellent detail...
