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Hi Tom, The legend is available on both maps. On the Public Information Map, click the Legend button (third icon in from the left). On the Local Impact Map, click the Legend button (second in from the left). You can get the date and time of the incident by clicking any of the elements on the map. For example, if you click the fire icon on the Public Information Map, you get information about when the fire started and a report about the last time that data was updated. The data is updated on a regular basis by the various federal agencies we're pulling data from. As soon as they update their data, it is pulled into our map. The Public Information Map is currently zoomed into Idyllwild, CA, but if you zoom out, you can see other fires across the country. You can actually customize the map to focus on a different fire by panning and zooming to your area of choice and then clicking the Link button (last on the right) to generate a new customized link and embed code. Thanks for your interest. Please let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks, Robby

As we mentioned in a previous post, this spring we at SocMap.com discovered the best path for further development -- namely, by creating small, specialized map apps. The first application of this kind was our HotBills app, which allowed journalists to reach 2% of the population for their investigation and uncover facts which were mere hunches before. Now we've launched the second map app! Screenshot - PublicConsultation PublicConsultation, like the name suggests, is a map app that allows one to hold public consultations on a city map online interface. We developed this app together with ManaBalss.lv, one of the most successful civic initiative platforms in the world. This app was piloted in Ķekava city in Latvia (with roughly 20,000 inhabitants). Here are the preliminary results:

Life and Code What I learned about life from programming | newshackery Who are you and why are you writing this blog? Why are you learning to code? How are you learning to code? Where can I find your code? I want to code - how do I get started? 2011.09.29 10 Technical Skills for Local Publishers This was published for Block By Block 2011, the largest gathering of independent local publishers. I love you guys! Embedded media. And not just YouTube! Check out Scribd, which lets you embed documents, Soundcloud for audio, Timeglider for animated timelines, Storify for curating tweets and more from your community. Install your CMS from scratch. Don't just be someone who can add content to your site: be your site's resident Ninja. For popular content management systems like Wordpress, Joomla, and Drupal, you can find excellent video-based classes on Lynda.com. And it's cheap - $35/month for all you can eat training. Tweak your theme. So you have a new advertiser. Great! Oh, but you have to move things around to put up that ad. Darn. See Tweak your Wordpress Theme for starters. Google Analytics. You can't grow it until you can show it, and showing it starts with understanding your analytics. Good book with a scary title: Advanced Web Metrics with Google Analytics. Check out the section on the "Ten Essential Google Analytics Reports." How to build a social media "listening post." When I ran a local site, I subscribed to 400 RSS feeds. Why? Because by the time I woke up, I generally had 3-5 stories just from that source alone. Start by learning how to use a desktop RSS aggregator like NetNewsWire for the Mac or FeedDemon for Windows - they're much more powerful and faster than Google Reader. Fusion tables/Google Maps Nothing scares the crap out of your local paper like a fancy interactive map that you toss off over a weekend. Fusion Tables tutorial. Hack Ye The Publick Da

The map on this page shows not only who's winning in each of the state's 99 counties, but, using Patchwork Nation, it shows how the candidates are doing in each of Iowa's eight types of county - from the wealthy Monied Burbs to the rural agricultural Tractor Country counties. It will fill in with data as the results from the caucuses come in. Patchwork Nation at http://patchworknation.org/

By Tim Henderson "Enter an address to see geocoded location; drag marker to correct X-Y coordinates Use satellite view button to see buildings or hybrid view at bottom right Zoom in and out or pan with controls on upper left "

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