Institute for Analytic Journalism

We're big fans of the breakthroughs in applied GIS being done by crime analysists and the legal system broadly defined. In fact, I would say that the conferences of these professionals are second only to the ESRI International Users Conference for new ideas and take-it-to-the-street learning. So if you live near New Orleans -- no matter what your profession -- check this out.

The call for presentations and workshops for the 2008 Crime Mapping Research Conference is now posted. The conference will take place September 17-20, 2008 at the Sheraton New Orleans.

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/maps/

Submission forms are available on the MAPS website:
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/maps/presentations_neworleans.pdf
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/maps/workshops_neworleans.pdf

Forms are also available in MS Word format.

Please send completed forms back to Ronald.Wilson@usdoj.gov , no later than January 18, 2008 (7pm EST). We will inform you of final decisions no later than April 1, 2008.

-Katie

Katie Filbert
Research Associate (contractor)
National Institute of Justice, MAPS Program
810 7th St, NW, Washington DC 20531
Tel: 202-305-7530
Fax: 202-616-0275
Katie.Filbert@usdoj.gov
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/maps/

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Monday, November 12

Journalism's unmet applications: Mapping Philly

by Tom Johnson on Mon 12 Nov 2007 03:42 PM MST

Last week, O'Reilly's Radar posted an interesting account of a project to scan historic photos of Philadelphia and link them to Google Maps. Hence, the reader can see the pic and then relate it to the photo's original location. Most newspapers have photo archives. Many of these shots are not just of people, but events which have a geographic location. It might be difficult to tie a picture with a specific location, but some might be possible. So why don't newspapers start scanning those photos and put them on the paper's web site, a la "Mapping Philly"? Doing so builds ... more »

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Thursday, November 8

Ricoh's GPS camera introduces a new data-gathering and presentation tool

by Tom Johnson on Thu 08 Nov 2007 01:38 PM MST

We knew this was coming, but missed the announcement in July of Ricoh's GPS WiFi camera. This strikes us as something that can become a high-impact journalism tool. Imagine how it could be applied for covering mass demonstrations or even sporting events. It could also be great for travel stories -- everything from walking tours through Scotland to pub crawling in New Orleans -- when linked to Google Maps.

The opening day price is about $1,100. Not too much, we think, as an investment for a newroom's digital R&D person/team. (Those do exist, don't they?)

Anyway, check out the link below.

Ricoh 500SE GPS-Enabled Digital Camera

Posted Jul 16th, 2007 by Chief Gadgeteer

The continuing growing popularity of mapping (particularly Google Maps, Google Earth and their street views) and GPSRicoh 500SE Digital Camera that is GPS enabled. Take a photo with the 500SE and it automatically embeds the position info into the photo. In a year or so, this will probably become a pretty standard feature on digital cameras and camcorders, or at least highly coveted. solutions means that consumers will want more products that automatically tie those things together. Enter the

The Ricoh 500SE is no slouch in the camera department either. It is an 8 megapixel CCD, 3x optical zoom, large 2.5″ TFT LCDWiFiBluetooth 2.0 connectivity.

Now back to the GPS stuff. Just imagine how cool it would be to embed your photos automatically in the right spot on a map by adding them as layers to existing maps that have GIS capabilities. Well, nevermind the last part if you don’t get that. Think about how cool it would be if you could pull up your pics in Flikr, Gallery or whatever, and then display a map alongside it that shows where the pic was taken. monitor screen, SD card slot, camera shake blur reduction and a 28mm wide-angle zoom lens. It also comes with 802.11b/g and

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