Presentación World Journalism Education Congress.

1. Google mapping tools
in the newsroom
Part 1
Highway Africa 2010
Compiled and presented by Jackie Rajuai

2. Google Geo Products
Google Maps Google Panoramio
Geo-political maps of the globe, satellite Explore places through photography; organize
imagery and hybrid views. photos with tags
Locates points of interest, roads/highways,
traffic, streetviews and can be used to find
directions from Point A to Point B
Google SketchUp
Create, modify or share 3D models
Google Earth
Fly over Earth's terrain and view Google Map Maker
satellite imagery, 3D views; dive into
the oceans or gaze into far off
Map the world. You can now map 181 countries!
galaxies

3. Google products that can enhance the experience of Geo products
Gmail
YouTube: Host related videos
Picasaweb: Host photos
Docs: For online collaboration between journalists in
different parts of the world
Forms: To gather information from Citizen Journalists

4. What YOU can do with these
Google geo products help answer the "where" question in presenting
information/news
Geo products can be used to:
aggregate news through active involvement of readers/citizen journalists
generate interactive news content
provide a way to access localized content quickly
cover news on disasters/conflicts/wars
make travelogues more meaningful and interesting
report on crime distribution, weather patterns, traffic news, commodity prices
Geo products provide easy-to-use interfaces that can be used to create mash-ups,
combining information/news from different sources and presenting it in a more
organized fashion

5. Aggregate Analyze
Enable and leverage Citizen Organize data through geo-
Journalism coding
Build stories, investigative
reports - disaster coverage,
crime distribution
Present
Localize content
Visualization of
information/news - driving
home the importance
Interactive and engaging
interface

6. Google Maps Basics
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7. Virtual Tourism with Street View
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8. Mash-ups and User-Generated Content
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9. Maps on Mobile
With Google Maps for mobile, you don't have to ever use a
paper map, while benefiting from a lot of other handy
features
Features
My Location Driving Directions Latitude
StreetView Layers
Buzz

10. Google Earth
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11. Google Earth Layers
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Google Confidential and Proprietary

12. Sky & Ocean in Google Earth
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13. Google Earth in Your Broadcast
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14. Quick Note on Press Permissions*
All uses of Google Maps and Google Earth must provide attribution to Google and our
content providers similar to what is shown to the users of our products today.
Unlimited Broadcast Use:
If you use Google Maps / Google Earth imagery in a film or broadcast on TV for an
unlimited number of times over a period of one year or more, you must obtain special
approval from us.

15. Google use by Media Houses
Print and Online:

16. Aggregation - Citizen Journalism
Ushahidi
Ushahidi is a
Open Source
Platform that
was initially
developed to
map reports of
violence in Kenya
through the
collaboration of
Kenyan citizen
journalists
during the 2007
Kenyan Elections

17. Aggregation - Citizen Journalism
Oil Spill Crisis
Louisiana Bucket
Brigade, an
environmental
NGO,
implemented the
Ushahidi
Platform to
depict incidents
and news related
to the Deep
Horizon oil spill
that are reported
by Citizen
Journalists

18. Aggregation - Citizen Journalism
CNN iReport
CNN has a User
generated section
called iReport, which
hosts stories
submitted by users
It uses a Form based
interface to enable
citizens to submit
their stories
464,197 stories
submitted so far, of
which 28,687 have
been vetted

19. Analysis
Disaster Coverage - Deep Horizon
This map from Google not only presents the
impact of oil spill but also enables Citizen
Journalists to contribute news from their localities

20. Analysis
Disaster Coverage - SanDiego wildfires 2007 interactive map
Urban Tribune
used a novel
way to update
information
and provide
real-time news
on the spread
and impact of
the 2007
SanDiego
wildfires
Geo products
are now widely
used for
disaster
management
and providing
critical news to
affected
areas/people

21. Presentation
NY Times News Layer on Google Earth

22. User Convenience
National Public Radio - USA
Maps the coverage
of its near-800
member stations, so
that users can locate
and tune in

23. The future...
Sorting of content geography-wise
o On-the-spot news snippets by journalists/citizen journalists (through mms/sms)
can be geo-tagged, categorized and presented on a map
Freelance and Citizen journalism
o Google Maps API can be used to integrate maps into journalists' own websites/blogs
to organize content better, make them more interactive and thereby increasing traffic
o Using Google Forms to gather news from Citizen journalists
Using the Cloud
o Google apps (email, docs, youtube etc) for online collaboration from anywhere
(Ground Zero - Disaster/War zones; Newsroom) and a host of devices (smart
phones, net/note books, kindle/iPad)