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Robb Montgomery
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Joined: 07 Mar 2004
Posts: 1504
Location: Chicago
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Thu Dec 22, 2005 1:30 am
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The NYT has a novel interactive map linked off their home page. It's needlessly underpromoted.
this link is some of the best reporting and reading in their online edition.
---> http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/20051220_STRIKE_MAP_READERS.html?8dpc
Maybe it's buried beacuse the stories were authored by readers? I can't tell you - but this is the perfect storm of an example of where more newspaper Web sites need to be thinking and executing.
Not only telling in the story in different ways - but allowing your community to tell it with you and then packaging their submissions in a dynamically-genreated map like this that pulls it all together.
I haven't been in NYC in 20 years - the strike doesn't affect me but I LOVED reading people's brave accounts or ridiculous attempts to perservere. That's a compelling read.
I could spend HOURS with this story because of the way this was done.
And really - integrating the FREE google maps api's is like, you know FAIRLY EASY, for web people to do. There's lots of great hacks and custom examples out there produced by amateurs and small-time outfits.
Readers are asked to 'blog' in a report from their zip code and the the map pinponts the location of the reporter.
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