ONE of the websites I follow is that of journalist, new media strategist and now interactive map guru Simon Dickson.
He has announced the launch of a Google map style tool for news websites that can draw on text, photographs and video from a key event.
Once live it will allow readers to click backwards and forwards through a story in a timeline format, a really imaginative way to tell a story.
I'm sure he has already got something similar in the pipeline, but imagine this hooked into Google Earth that uses the GPS built into mobile phone cameras to place you where the person themselves stood as you watch their video clip, so you can look all around you.
And then move onto the next location and the next... a bit like Google Maps Street View.
My mum's quite impressed by the 'guru' description - thanks Craig! The long term plan for the mapping application doesn't go much further than where we've got to so far; but we've certainly discussed the idea of geocoding user-contributed content. Not on the immediate horizon, though. Hope you like the app when it launches next week - although as I say in my blog post, it won't prove its magic until we get the Next Huge Story.
Posted by: Simon Dickson | June 01, 2007 at 11:59
Hi Simon, I'm looking forward to seeing it up on the Sky website.
All the best, Craig
Posted by: Craig | June 02, 2007 at 18:30