Using Maps

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Using Maps
West Virginia Uncovered Training Session February
2009 Jessica Rhodes
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Using maps for news stories

• There are many different reasons to incorporate
  maps into your stories
• To give reverence to a place
• To help reader understand the location of a
  person or place
• To show the relationship in distance from place
  to another
• Example of a story where you could use a map
• Perhaps you are covering a bank robbery
• You could use a map to show where the bank is
  located and where the robber was caught by
  police.

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Here are a few examples of news story maps
This map was a supplement to a story about West
Virginia University School of Journalism
students summer trip to Southeast Asia. The map
was used to show the locations the students
visited and add an interesting fact or memory of
the place.
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This map was created to show the distribution of
School of Journalism students after graduation
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A map used in the Oregonian
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The same map taken from their Web site
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A map used to show a car chase
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The same map as it appeared on the newspapers
Web site
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A map/infographic used to show the area of the
World Trade Center and Ground Zero
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The following three maps are representing a
tsunami near India
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Incorporating Google Maps into your site
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Google Maps

• Google provides a free service for Web sites to
  add their map service to their page.
• All you need is a Google account and you can add
  Google Maps to your very own site
• West Virginia Uncovered uses Google Maps to
  pinpoint their story locations with brief
  paragraphs about the story

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Visit this site to learn more about adding Google
maps into your online site

• http//code.google.com/apis/maps/