Poynter Online Amy Gahran points out a number of excellent news maps in this post.
Among them:
- Elephant Wars, a multimedia-laden Google Earth map from National Geographic
- Bakersfield.com Maps (Amy’s favorites: Bakersfield Quirks, Bakersfield’s Future Highways, and Pete Tittl’s Restaurant Picks )
- TribTowns from the Salt Lake Tribune, an effort to geolocate news, sports and entertainment coverage
- Katrina maps from the New Orleans Times Picayune, including ones on coastal erosion, the rebuilding effort and how the city actually flooded during Katrina
Also check out these lists of Cool Uses of Google Maps and Using Google Maps on News Stories and add any other you are aware to the list in the comments.
