New Mapping The Boston Marathon Bombings

It is surprising how few intelligence stories are illustrated amongst online maps. This week's tragic bombing at the destination of the Boston Marathon in addition to the ensuing hunt for the suspects proved all the same to survive a notable exception.

The New York Times went amongst a static 'bird's eye' aerial sentiment of Boylston St inwards Boston to exhibit the place of the 2 bomb explosions in addition to the marathon finishing line. Whilst nearly other online intelligence sites opted for annotated maps of the scene the Times' Site of the Explosions at the Boston Marathon aerial photograph, was for me the nearly evocative visualisation of the tragic events.

Boston.com used Leaflet to exercise a map that allowed Bostonians in addition to other witnesses to add together their ain accounts of the events to a map of Boston. The Boston Marathon Bombings: Your Story provided a compelling agency for view witnesses to portion their ain stories of the day's tragic events.

The shooting of 1 of the Tsarnaev brothers in addition to the subsequent 22 hr manhunt for the other blood brother led to a proliferation of online maps equally intelligence sites in addition to citizen journalists tried to render roughly geographical context to the unfolding events. Again the New York Times provided 1 of the best mapped visualisations for the hunt for the bombing suspects.

The Hunt for the Boston Bombing Suspects uses a static Google Map amongst interactive hotspots to render a narrative of the hunt for Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev.

Readers tin flame either click on the interactive map markers to read the accompanying text or tin flame merely scroll downwards the page. As the reader scrolls the map itself is held inwards house in addition to equally each phase inwards the intelligence narrative appears below the map the relevant place is highlighted on the map.