The Colombian newspaper in Clark County, Washington, has teamed up with MapWith.Us to create an online news map, reports Google Maps Mania.
At the moment The Columbian’s news map shows reports from the newspaper’s own reporters and photographers, who are armed with smart phones to post reports from the field. However before the end of the year the newspaper will also have a separate map that accepts citizen journalist reports.
The citizen journalism map will allow the newspaper’s readers to instantly publish news that matters to them directly from their “smart” mobile telephones. The posted data will appear on the Google Map mash-up, automatically pinpointed to the correct location using the phones’ built-in GPS systems. Reader’s submissions will be able to include photographs, text and even audio and video footage.
MapWith.Us Mobile lets anyone upload pictures, audio, video, and text annotations to your maps on the Web. Its’ available for the iPhone, Blackberry and soon Android, Samsung Instinct and Windows Mobile phones.
In other news, PocketGear is launching an Android storefront at Androidgear.com to sell a suite of free and commercial applications for the G1. The company is offering 25 percent off applications through the end of the month.
