I’ve been working at the Star as a Web editor since 2001.
In 2005, colleagues Brett Smith, Chris Carter and I started to explore the possibilities of the Google Maps API as a news tool for thestar.com:
We had one of the first homicide maps on a North American news Web site, in early 2005. Later, we started mapping home towns of Canadians killed in Afghanistan and marijuana grow houses busted in the city. We were the first in the city to link to live traffic camera images on an interactive map.
Our splash page for the last provincial election was built around a Google Map, which for the first time displayed polygons, or two-dimensional shapes.
For all that, we’ve barely scratched the possibilities of the medium, which brings us to Map of the Week. The concept is that the weekly maps will work as stand-alone features, not necessarily connected to a story or to content in the paper, though opportunities to link them would be exploited as they arise, as I expect they will.
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Ontario's Technical Standards and Safety Authority released a revised list of the province's propane facilities today.
Circles indicate a 1.6 kilometre radius around the facility, the distance Toronto mayor David Miller has urged they be kept from residential areas.
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These circles appear to have a radius of 1km, not 1.6km
Posted by: Peter Friesen | August 18, 2008 at 12:29 PM
This has been corrected. To make a long story short, it was a metric conversion issue, stupidly enough - we thought the units in a line of XML were in miles, which would be typical for GoogleMaps, but instead it turned out to be kilometres.
Posted by: pcain | August 18, 2008 at 06:22 PM
Propane Facilities and all other Business Facilities working with toxic and volitile products should all be located in an Industrial Park at a safe distance away from housing.
Posted by: Chelle' | September 06, 2008 at 08:43 PM
Why are we using US Gallons as a way to measure? Aren't we supposed to be using metric for the last 30 years? What happens to Litres?
Posted by: jfjunior | September 20, 2008 at 07:34 AM