Crime maps

LA Homicide blog

Oakland Crimespotting

NJ Sex Offenders

Gangs

Examples

California Wildfires

Cincinnati Enquirer

Sports maps

BBC Correspondents

Mapified maps news to RSS feeds


Readings about Do-it-Yourself Online Maps

NYT on rise of amateur map makers

AJR Profile Adrian Holovaty

Research paper on rise of online map (.pdf)


HELP for Google Maps

Google maps help
Google maps how-to video

Data Visualization Tools
Tableau

Manyeyes

Example: Ice Cube