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3) Connecting to other online platforms: in this case, data
are either extracted by Web scraping, or obtained from rich
side summary (RSS) feeds or API.

No. Title of the Map URL Designer

1 “Flood Maps” http://flood.firetree.

net/?ll=52.6431.15.4
468&m=0

Alex Tingle

2 “San Francisco

Crimespotting”

http://sanfrancisco.
crimespotting.org/

Stamen Design

3 “LA Bike Map” www.bikesidela.org/

labikemap/

Alex Thompson,
President of
BikesideLA

4 “Creek speak: Voices

from Newtown Creek”

www.newtowncreek
alliance.org/
community-health/
creek-speak/

Newtown Creek
Alliance, Michael
Heimbinder for
the mapping
application
HealthMap

5 “Manifestations: la

carte des chiffres”

http://owni.fr/2010/0
9/07/manifestations-
carte-chiffres-
greve-7sept-
crowdsourcing/

OWNI

6 “Wikileaks Iraq war

logs: every death
mapped”

www.guardian.co.uk
/world/datablog/inte
ractive/2010/oct/23/
wikileaks-iraq-
deaths-map

Simon Rogers,
the “Datablog”,
The Guardian
newspaper

7 “La carte des

requêtes”

http://leon.merignac.
com/

City of Mérignac,
the Netscouade
for the platform

8 “Barack Obama's

journey to White
House from Honolulu,
Hawaii”

www.mibazaar.com/
obama_igoogle.html

Virender Ajmani

9 “HyperCities Egypt” http://egypt.

hypercities.com/

Todd Presner,
Yoh Kawano,
David Shepard,
Hypercities
Project , Center
for Digital
humanities,
UCLA