Google had a few days ago opened its Public Data Explorer for general use. Till then, the Explorer contained data sets that Google had curated with its data provider partners – 27 datasets that users could play around with. It is a fascinating tool because people with no knowledge of the technical stuff could manipulate…
There are some interesting instances of news organizations benefiting from using CrowdMap, the easy-to-deploy platform created by the folks behind Ushahidi, the crowdsource-related mapping tool that was launched originally to track reports of violence in Kenya after the elections there in 2008. Since then Ushahidi had gained attention and fame for being useful in several…
Some media organisations are deep into interactive visual storytelling of the geographic kind, mixing geospatial information technology and news; but not all of them might find it easy to develop the kind of newsroom expertise or drive to make it work. And when it does work, it can set a trend or make waves. One…
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