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
Let’s get to it!

5. 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

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

7. Power Blackouts Citizens report power blackouts on UrbanVoice
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… 