Transcript Maps - West Virginia University

Using Maps
West Virginia Uncovered Training Session
February 2009
Jessica Rhodes
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.
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
student’s visited
and add an
interesting fact or
memory of the
place.
This map was
created to show
the distribution of
School of
Journalism
students after
graduation
A map used in
the Oregonian
The same map
taken from their
Web site
A map used to
show a car chase
The same map as it
appeared on the
newspaper’s Web site
A map/infographic
used to show the
area of the World
Trade Center and
Ground Zero
The following three maps are representing a
tsunami near India
Incorporating Google Maps into
your site
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
Visit this site to learn more about
adding Google maps into your
online site
http://code.google.com/apis/maps/