Multidimensional Story Telling

MeographCreate multimedia stories

http://www.meograph.com/channel4kvwm/13/trayvon-martin-case

Visual.lyCreate free infographics and data visualizations.

http://visual.ly/crime-unpunishment-why-journalists-fear-their-safety

OpenStreetMaps + MapBox http://mapbox.com

Download TillMill applicationhttp://mapbox.com/tilemill

Example from WNYC

www.OpenStreetMaps.org

Fusion Tables + Shape Escape

Fusion Tables Google.com/fusiontables

http://www.shpescape.com

Google Docs Access from Google Drive

https://drive.google.com

Shapefile? KML? Shapefile is a geospatial vector format in geographic information

systems (GIS) software. The shapefile is a collection of files that stores geometrical data in the forms of points, lines and polygon.

In English: File types for Geographical/mapping data.

ONLY works with Latitude/ Longitude, wkt and geojson columns

If you have all day: http://www.uhh.hawaii.edu/~sdalhelp/docs/ht_xls_to_shp.pdf

If you have two minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT2awFra5Gk