Mapping the News

We all know a newspaper would not complete without a map or two. For instance a map could spice up the weather section showing cloud coverage for the rest of the week, or even a gruesome story about 10 murders in the Reno/Sparks area showing all the locations where they took place. Below are some examples of maps in the news:

Temperature Map on the weather forecast website http://weather.msn.com/region.aspx?wealocations=North+America

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/maps/index.html , this website is really cool, it shows a political, terrain, population, oil fields, regional and palaces map of Iraq since the war started in 2003.