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 Yes, some famous news stories have used GIS

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

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

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

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

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

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

That’s it It’s not that hard… 