SXSW conference is off to a great start in Austin, Texas. To make better sense of the event, we put together several interactive maps to display SXSW Tweets, Events and Weather. Feel free to grab the embed code and use the maps below on your website. For more information on SXSW visit the official website.
Events
Tweets
Weather
Over the past few weeks UMapper has been mentioned in a number of online media publications and blogs. We love the publicity and would love to share some of those posts with you:
This morning Chile was rocked by a devastating 8.8 earthquake that claimed hundreds of lives. The earthquake was extensively mapped by our community, some of the most notable maps are embedded below. If you’re looking to pitch in and help the relief effort in Chile, you can find more info here.
Huge 8.8 quake hits central Chile by StarTribune
Aftershocks in Chile 27-Feb-2010 by InfoSismos
Earthquake Twitter Map
In addition, our maps were used to illustrate new articles on Chicago Sun-Times, StarTribune and Trouw.nl.
After two weeks of intensive testing, the Twitter Search template is ready for release! It is now easier than ever to create interactive maps with real-time Twitter feeds. You can display all tweets from a location or filter results by a specific keyword.
Here is how it works:
Pretty easy! Create your first Twitter map right now.
Here is what people are saying about weather in Vancouver. Check it out in full screen (button in top-right corner).
As with all of our other templates, this one supports all of the standard features of UMapper. You can add custom icons, audio overlays, images and all other previously-released features.
The Twitter search is created using Tweetr ActionScript 3.0 library.
We’ve added [trendy] Google Buzz to the list of sharing options for UMapper maps. If you have a Google Buzz account, simply navigate to the map view page and click Buzz It in the bottom right corner. As with Facebook and Twitter, the details of the shared map will be added to Google Buzz stream. Buzz it!
