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GIS for Journalists

GIS for Journalists. 15/3/12 By Wilfred Waters M App Sci (GIS) ( Melb ) B Psych (Hons) Engineers Without Borders Australia volunteer Founder of the Phnom Penh Mapping Meetup. GIS?. Geographic Information System A way to store, process and retrieve geographic information

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GIS for Journalists

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  1. GIS for Journalists 15/3/12 By Wilfred Waters M App Sci (GIS) (Melb) B Psych (Hons) Engineers Without Borders Australia volunteer Founder of the Phnom Penh Mapping Meetup

  2. GIS? • Geographic Information System • A way to store, process and retrieve geographic information • Yes, some famous news stories have used GIS

  3. A famous GIS and journalism example • Wikileaks Iraq: data journalism maps every death

  4. Today we’ll make: • Map of Post Media offices • Google Map • Open Heat Map • Map of Cambodian mining concessions • Google Fusion Tables • Google Map • Let’s get to it!

  5. Using Maps in News Articles • Map URL • Blog • News article • Embed code • Blog • News article (like The Guardian example earlier) • Sharing the actual data • KML file • Google Fusion Table URL

  6. Sources of Map Data • Open Development Cambodia • Map • Data downloads • SITHI • Map • Crowdsourcing human rights violations • Urban Voice Cambodia • Map • Crowdsourcing urban development information

  7. Power Blackouts • Citizens report power blackouts on UrbanVoice • www.urbanvoicecambodia.net/reports/submit • We want to contrast this crowdsourced dataset with other layers of spatial data • You can write a story about this to encourage people to post reports and raise awareness

  8. Remember the Iraq map? • I’ve shown you some basic mapping techniques • You can now follow the tutorial on how to create their map here: • Part 1 • Part 2

  9. That’s it • It’s not that hard… 

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