Breaking News

Using GIS as a reporting tool, you can provide readers and viewers with a simple map that gives your story context. When a story such as a fire or mudslide is breaking, the map answers "where is it happening?" and "will it affect me or someone I know?"

Whether you have a staff of graphic artists or none at all, the online map-making tool MapStudio helps newspapers make accurate maps quickly and easily. From the location of a traffic accident to a bombing in the Middle East, anyone in the organization can create a map in minutes and output it in industry-standard formats.

The technology that is used to create MapStudio can also be used to generate maps for the Web. ESRI's ArcGIS use standard developer tools to allow you to create dynamic maps to flesh out news events such as where a crime occurred, how the traffic looks, or what the weather is.