[ddj] Maps/dataviz built into scrollable story-telling - examples?

Mon Dec 22 13:11:57 UTC 2014

Dear all,

thanks to everybody for your replies and examples.

Interestingly, among your examples there have been almost none, that
already had interactive maps embedded as a page element that would be
treaded scrollably like pictures, film or text (examples rather had maps
as a permanently visible core-element, that copuld not be scrolled, or
non-interactive pictures of maps).

I am wondering, why that is. Why is one of the most powerful and popular
visualisation (namely interactive maps) absent as a usual element in
scrollies, which in many editorial offices seem to become a very desired
modern form of story-telling? Is it because there are good arguments
against it? Or is it a technical thing? I am happy to hear your thoughts
on this (for anyone who's not tired of the subject yet). Maybe I am
missing the obvious...

Thanks again and have a nice X-Mas time!

Björn

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Am 17.12.14 um 11:48 schrieb Sam Leon:
> A couple of examples come to mind:
>
>   * New York Times -
>     http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/07/03/world/middleeast/syria-iraq-isis-rogue-state-along-two-rivers.html?_r=0
>   * Global Witness (using Shorthand <http://shorthand.com/>) -
>     http://www.globalwitness.org/olympics/
>
>
>
> On 17 December 2014 at 09:28, Bauer Michael
> <michael.bauer at derstandard.at <mailto:michael.bauer at derstandard.at>>
> wrote:
>
>     I've seen and liked faces of fracking:
>
>     http://www.facesoffracking.org/data-visualization/
>
>     Michael
>
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>     Subject: [ddj] Maps/dataviz built into scrollable story-telling -
>     examples?
>
>     Hello everybody,
>
>     I have a project where I would like to build data visualizations,
>     especially maps, into a scrollable story-telling onepager like this:
>     http://www.ndr.de/Karriere,jugendknast148.html#page=0&anim=slide
>
>     I would be most thankful for any examples of similar things that
>     have been done before.
>
>     It seems to me that especially maps inside such a scrolling
>     environment are not very common. I wonder why and if I simply have
>     overlooked many examples. I am not thinking of embedded maps that
>     are fancy animated simulated camera flights or such. Rather simple
>     things, that are presented big, i.e. as a whole page (or
>     significant part of it) within the story: Interactive maps with
>     location dots and info-window popups or interactive choropleth
>     maps (be it self-made with D3, Raphael, or using other services
>     like google, OSM, CartoDB, Mapbox...).
>
>     Thank you very much for you help!
>
>     Best,
>     Björn
>
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