Presentation from August 2013 IRE-NICAR mapping bootcamp in Columbia, Mo.

1. Mapping the news
David Herzog | Missouri School of Journalism | NICAR

2. In the beginning
London, 1850s

3. Mapping cholera deaths

4. More than a century later . . .
Miami, 1992

5. Hurricane Andrew hits south Fla.

6. Nearly two decades later…

7. Interactive mashups

8. Interactive mashups

9. Map-based hyperlocal news

10. Remote sensing

11. D.I.Y. maps and data exploration

12. Google Docs map gadgets

13. Geocommons Maker

14. Tableau Public

15. Tableau Public

16. Google Public Data Explorer

17. ArcGIS Online

18. What GIS programs do

19. Layering

20. Geocoding: Street addresses to points

21. Displaying LAT-LONG data

22. Turning data into symbols

23. Turning data into symbols

24. Selecting by attribute

25. Selecting by location

26. Joining data spatially

27. Spatial data processing

28. Buffering

29. Merging
Copyright ESRI

30. Clipping
Copyright ESRI

31. Dissolving
Copyright ESRI

32. Intersecting
Copyright ESRI

33. Union
Copyright ESRI

34. Soooo….what’s the catch?
 GI$ programs demand an investment
 Money and time
 Time

35. GIS options
 Commercial
 ESRI ArcGIS 10.1 for Desktop Basic (Win.)
 Caliper Maptitude (Win.)
 Cartographica (Mac)
 Open-Source options
 Quantum GIS a.k.a. qGIS (Win./Mac/Linux)
 PostgreSQL + PostGIS (Win./Mac/Linux)
 Software as a service
 Geocommons

36. Resources for learning
 Mapping for stories IRE beat book
 ESRI online training

37. Contact info and bookmarks
 David Herzog
 herzogd@missouri.edu
 @DavidHerzog on Twitter