Comments on: WashingtonPost.Com Launches ‘Local Explorer’

By: links for 2007-06-15 at Framtider.net

links for 2007-06-15 at Framtider.net — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:18:43 +0000

[...] The Local Onliner: WashingtonPost.Com Launches ‘Local Explorer’ WashingtonPost.com has soft-launched “Local Explorer, ” which allows users to map crime, home sales and school information by zip code. It is a great model for “mapped journalism.” (tags: geografi kartor washingtonpost.com local_explorer lokal_journalistik den_lokala_webben the_local_onliner) [...]

By: Local Online Journalism Developments at Ghost of Midnight

Local Online Journalism Developments at Ghost of Midnight — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:12:12 +0000

[...] The Local Onliner reported recently… WashingtonPost.com has soft-launched “Local Explorer, ” which allows users to map crime, home sales and school information by zip code. It is a great model for “mapped journalism.” [...]

By: Tom Grubisich

Tom Grubisich — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:59:00 +0000

There’s nothing shatteringly new about post.com’s Local Explorer, but it’s so well packaged, and new layers of open-source content can be added. The only disappointment is that the news links are to stories that aren’t hyperlocal. That’s because the Post doesn’t, yet, have local-local contributors, staff or “citizen.”

By: AhmedF

AhmedF — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 05:45:50 +0000

Tooting my own horn here, but we had an explorer-like system over a year ago with the same idea (at least for businesses) – select a category, and go browsing over any area to find the x nearest points. ‘The Explorer’ it was called :)

By: links for 2007-06-06 « David Black

links for 2007-06-06 « David Black — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:29:47 +0000

[...] The Local Onliner » WashingtonPost.Com Launches ‘Local Explorer’ ‘WashingtonPost.com has soft-launched “Local Explorer, ” which allows users to map crime, home sales and school information by zip code. It is a great model for “mapped journalism”.’ (tags: internet newspapers newspapersites local mapping washingtonpost) [...]

By: Martin Stabe » links for 2007-06-05

Martin Stabe » links for 2007-06-05 — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:22:48 +0000

[...] The Local Onliner: WashingtonPost.Com Launches ‘Local Explorer’ Peter Krasilovsky: “WashingtonPost.com has soft-launched ‘Local Explorer,’ which allows users to map crime, home sales and school information by zip code. It is a great model for ‘mapped journalism.’” (tags: mapping local washingtonpost journalism) [...]