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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I’ve been getting around to this for a while, and this turned out to be a good week for it – three maps (start here) of income distribution in the GTA.
We map average household income, the lowest-income households and the highest-income households.
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