LI Cold Cases, GoogleMapped

Date October 24, 2006

I read the Long Island newspaper Newsday partly to keep an eye on the part of the world where I grew up, and partly because the father of one of my characters (apparently) works for it. This morning, though, on their website, I noticed something I hadn’t noticed before.

Newsday GoogleMap thumbnail

Newsday’s front page features a Google map of “cold” or unsolved murder cases on Long Island. Hover over the “pushpin” of a given incident and a balloon comes up offering you a chance to read the newspaper’s story about the case, discuss it with other readers, or email the newspaper a tip.

Fascinating…

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One Response to “LI Cold Cases, GoogleMapped”

  1. Jim said:

    Interesting. I’ve seen something like that, except it was a GoogleMap made to display the chronological order of a series of incidents.

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