![]() ![]() ![]() Santa Barbara mudslides evacuation zones: Santa Barbara Independent built this layered map showing how 17 of the 23 victims may have been living under no evacuation notice of any sort.Here are some excellent examples of what you can build with MyMaps from newsrooms that I’ve trained on Google tools: Just watch this video on how to build a layered map, then download your own dataset and get to work. The layering gives the map greater depth as you can track how many homicides each neighborhood has, or how many COVID vaccination centers are located in each ZIP code, etc. KMZ files of neighborhoods, city council districts, Congressional districts, counties, ZIP codes, etc. It also allows you to layer in shapefiles. MyMaps will handle a spreadsheet of 1,000 rows or less comfortably, a limit I wouldn’t push too hard. There are thousands of stories to be found in datasets on your city, county, state and federal data portals. Tracking crime in certain neighborhoods? Load a spreadsheet from your police department into MyMaps. Have a dataset of pothole repairs in your city? Map it. Google MyMaps is the perfect tool for mapping small datasets for dayturn stories and projects. ![]()
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