How many times have we been looking through the newspaper and instead of reading the story you just look at the graphic or map? I know that I do every time. Not just because I am a map geek but because if you can get the same information from looking at a map versus reading a page long story most likely filled with hard to decipher statistics, why not?
Maps are a great communicator of information. They are used to tell stories or convey information easily to a particular audience. The news industry uses this powerful tool to convey information to their captive audience to tell their stories and make their point.
There are almost an infinite many types of maps that can be created to depict any story. We are use to weather maps, crime spree maps, traffic maps, and many more in our everyday examination of the news.
Maps are a great communicator of information. They are used to tell stories or convey information easily to a particular audience. The news industry uses this powerful tool to convey information to their captive audience to tell their stories and make their point.
There are almost an infinite many types of maps that can be created to depict any story. We are use to weather maps, crime spree maps, traffic maps, and many more in our everyday examination of the news.
Just today I checked the news on Google News and Yahoo News and found many maps right off the main pages. As talked about in a previous blog, interactive maps are being used more and more as a useful tool to convey information to a large audience.
Its has been said over and over that pictures are worth a thousand words but I think that maps are worth even more. It is my goal that one day we can do away with newscasters and hire only cartographers and have the news be depicted all through maps. No more funny haircuts, fake laughs or weather men pushing storms around with their funny arm movements, just maps.
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