The following is the basis of a tutorial I’ll be giving later today of a University of Memphis journalism class on various ways to create Google Maps.
1) Linking to or embedding Google MyMaps is the most simple way to begin.
Log into your Google account, head over to maps.google.com, and click “MyMaps” right under the Google logo. [...]

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I’m learning to hunt — so what started out as me toolin’ around on the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency website turned into an excuse to make a neat map of public hunting land within striking distance of Memphis.
Turns out there’s actually quite a bit of land out here: more than 370,000 acres of Wildlife Management [...]

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Just a quickie: Some tornadoes touched down in and around greater Memphis today, knocking electric service out for a lot of folks. Damage reports are still coming in.
I’m relatively new to the area, so this is probably old news for some folks, but it warrants a mention.
Props to Memphis Light, Gas and Water for its [...]

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Check out what the Des Moines Register is doing today, the first day gay couples can legally marry in Iowa. Pretty cool use of public records (yes, Hamilton County, they are public) for a visually appealing, timely and useful web application.
As I’m writing this there were 380 licenses already issued. Think about that — in [...]

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It was a good day for journos when President Obama declared he was in favor of transparency in government, and issued the memo instructing bureaucrats to, when in doubt, go ahead and release the data. Not only that, says the prez, citizens shouldn’t have to wait around and file Freedom of Information requests when the [...]

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