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Yesterday was election day in the United States, several geoblogs links and discuss the various maps available online. Spatial Sustain shared numerous links, including the New York Times and Wired coverage, but also MSNBC interactive map, ABC News interactive map and Washington Post's detailed interactive map. The official Google Lat Long blog ran an entry on their special Google Maps, YouTube layers and Twitter updates. Very Spatial informs us about a BBC state-by-state map. All Points Blog links to an article on a multi-touch collaboration wall for the elections. And finally, DataLibre links to a map of the political blogosphere. See also previous stories below. I may add other sources below since I anticipate additional geoblog coverage in the coming days.
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Electoral Geography Website Launched
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The Very Spatial blog links to a newly launched electoral geography website. From the VS entry: "There’s a LOT of good data there for anyone doing anything with elections around the world. They seem to be following a “beg, borrow, or steal” philosophy as far as the data (which I wholly support!), so you might have to do a little massaging to get into a form you can easily use for analysis."
Mapping the 2008 U.S. Election Financial Contributions 1 comment
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Very Spatial and other blogs links to interactive maps about campaign contributions for the U.S. 2008 election [warning, it seems the maps don't work with Firefox]. From this article (including screenshots): "Being the FEC, the map is also not without bureaucratic guidelines. It only includes itemized individual contributions; PAC money or donations under $200 are not reported; and primary and general funds are not separated. Also, money transferred from cong. to WH accounts will be attributed to the state where the cong. cmte was registered -- So, all the “SEN” money that HRC raised from 22101 or 90210 is recorded as contributions out of NY State." See related stories below.
Electoral Maps: U.S. Earmarks and Swiss
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We covered electoral maps quite a few times in the past. The official Google LatLong blog discuss the mapping of where U.S. congressional provisions (or earmarks) are directing funds and links to a USA Today article. The Map Room links to an interactive map of the results of the recent Swiss federal election and links to a new U.S.-oriented site named The Electoral Map. Below I copied some of the previous stories related to elections, including this one on worldwide electoral geography website.
Google Earth: Alabama, Population Maps, U.S. Elections 2008 and Route Planner
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Here's a bunch of geonews related to Google Earth / Maps. First is unveiling of a collection of tools and databases based on Google Earth for the state of Alabama, named Virtual Alabama: "The department worked with Google to use Google Earth technology as its primary means of visualizing an operational picture around the state. The same tool will be used by first responders, county planners, and other officials to get detailed geographic views overlayed with critical information." The GEB also discusses anthropogenic biomes and population density maps for GE. The official Google Lat Long blog shares a gadget for the U.S. 2008 presidential election. Ogle Earth describes the free EarthNC trip and route planner tool for Google Earth. Related stories copied below.
Geotagged News Archive on the US Election 2008
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Arno Scharl writes "The ECOresearch Network has just released a geotagged news archive on the US Presidential Election 2008. The system gathers and annotates documents from blogs, environmental organizations, the Fortune 1000 and news media from the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand. Processing these sites yields more than 800,000 documents each week.
The tightly coupled interface integrates geographic maps with information landscapes, ontology graphs and tag clouds to reveal both geographical and semantic relationships. Each visualization is implemented as a Web Map Service and displayed via OpenLayers. A 6-minute screencast demonstrates the major components.
Besides geotagging the documents, the system provides weekly statistics on the US Election 2008. It identifies (i) attention by counting references to a candidate, (ii) sentiment towards a candidate by looking for co-occurring positive and negative expressions, (iii) keywords reflecting the most important topics associated with a candidate." See below other US elections 2008 stories.
Geospatial Technology to Map US Election in Real-Time
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From the
GIS Development web site : "As the US presidential election season begins, the coming year promises a series of primaries, caucuses and straw polls, culminating in a general election in November. GIS and software development company to help geographically record, map, and analyze election day incidents in real-time, for the first time in the 103 years of Committee of Seventy.
The primary challenge of incorporating GIS into this endeavor was to create a system that would enable both quick recording of incidents and real-time map generation." For the entire article see this web site :
http://www.gisdevelopment.net/news/viewn.asp?id=GIS:N_wbpqhleozg
Technology: Hitachi New StarBoard Interactive Surface 2 comments
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A colleague sent me a CNET article about Hitachi's new StarBoard interactive surface showcasing Google Earth. Slashdot also discusses the technology. This type of technology has been discussed a few times in the past, specifically the ESRI's TouchTable, Microsoft's Surface and others working with NASA World Wind. From the article: "The surface itself is simply a rigid board. At the top there are two cameras that track the movement of your hands. These work independently of each other, so the device is essentially multi-touch. What amazed us is how easy to use the whole system was. It took no real instruction to get us playing with it. Using Google Earth with it was a treat. There was also a photo app, which was clearly just there to illustrate the multi-touch capabilities of the system." Update: 01/22 16:24 GMT by S : Slowly catching up geonews, closely related is Google's touchEarth Summer of Code project (link includes video) which sends touchlib/OpenTouch finger gesture events to the TUIO protocol. There's also the LG-Philips 52-inch multi-touch screen worth a mention.
U.S. Presidential Election Round Up 3 comments
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I admit Slashgeo did not share a lot on the U.S. presidential 2008 race so far. Here's what I found on the geoblogs.
The early and absentee voting map: "Eventually I did find a good site and depicting map that shows state by state early voting practices. I found this map in a series of maps and detailed information on voting trends and patterns at the website hosted by the PEW Center for the States."
MapHawk share a map with 'tool tips' from the LA Times: "The Tribune shows the historical margin of victory for the presidential candidate in past elections. They've made it easy by color-coding by the typical red vs. blue for each winning party. So, the result is a compelling tool that allows the user to determine how deep or shallow the margin of victory is and also provides some intelligence for looking at the current polls to determine if the party has a strong foundation." The same blog as a what-if map: "Using a variety of demographic variables including race, religion, and ethnicity, the user adjusts the percentage of the total turnout of these groups and to which candidate they would favor."
The official Google Lat Long blog offers two entries, first one named How the US has voted since 1980 and second one sharing notes on election information.
DM shares an interview regarding the Map the Vote initiative: "Map the Vote, a partner of the National Committee for an Effective Congress (NCEC), a progressive political action committee, contracted with Farallon Geographics to build a precinct-level data set for key battleground states in this year's U.S. presidential election. With data from the Democratic National Committee and using Oracle Spatial, Farallon processed over 20 million voter records to produce election precinct data sets."
APB mentions the TimeSpace Election application: "The results are plopped down on a Google Map housed in a Flash/Flex app. Users are invited to share their own election coverage." The same blog also links to a newspaper endorsement map.
GIS Dev Cafe shares campaign finance maps.
The EiS offers an interactive ad spending map.
On McCain specifically (haven't found any Obama-only map), the GEB offers a McCain geo-biography. The Map Room offers an entry named mapping McCain. Import cartography offers a map of McCain's houses.
See also related stories below.
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Thanks for this!
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I wish they could have been bigger, but maybe they don't want too many huge requests all at once--one minute after the polls close. Another choropleth map had a Democratic map with Hillary and Obama in shades of Democrat blue, and McCain, Huckabee, and Romney (remember him?) in shades of Republican red. It was hard not to think of the darker candidate as the _winner_, however, so I think the Post has done the right thing by using more random colors.
My only complaint was on that Tuesday, only the Tuesday states were covered. I would have liked to have been able to flip from Super Tuesday mode to primaries so far mode.
Anyway, slashgeo.org is great! Much appreciated.
Superdelegates in Google Earth
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