Maps

There are now many interesting examples of projects to map the Occupy movement (map in this case involving geospatial information, not only 'visualization' or 'conceptual map' of Occupy).
A few examples:

• Map of all livestreams: http://web.media.mit.edu/~cfd/occupystreamsmap/
  + code for that map: http://github.com/yourcelf/occupystreamsmap/
• http://map.squaresdatabase.org
• http://wiki.shop.tm/index.php/Occupations | http://wiki.shop.tm/index.php/Occupy_Vancouver/map | draws from
  http://wiki.shop.tm/index.php/Occupy_Vancouver/map/pointers
• http://www.occupymap.com/
• http://maps.occupy.net/main
• http://locast.mit.edu/occupied
• http://map.15october.net/
• http://occupytogether.crowdmap.com/main
• http://meipi.org/occupytogether.meipi.php
• http://www.meetup.com/occupytogether/
• Aerial mapping: http://mapknitter.org/maps/2011-10-01-newyork-occupywallstreet
• Mother Jones map: [add link]

Additional notes re: maps and geo

Geo tweets visualization: After setting up an Ushahidi instance using CrowdMaps, I noticed that tweets don't automatically become reports - and there doesn't seem to be any way to do this. The model is that each tweet can be used to autopopulate the report form with a fair amount of info. I suppose this is good for info verification. But I'm now Imagining data visualization of #Occupy tweets, and came up with following ideas on the way home:

• Tweets w/geolocation, over time. This is a 'watch it blossom and spread' data visualization. At a certain point there may be so many that you'd need to only display 1 dot per (10, 100, 1000) tweets.
• Add another layer on topx, but also w/geodata, over time. Blog posts (that generate a certain amount of inbound links?) Use a different color.
• Third color: print newspapers. When there's a story, the geographic area of the paper physical distribution lights up (?) Inspired by front page newspaper coverage visualizations.
• Another color: broadcast TV coverage.
• Note re: beyond simple mentions, how about framing analysis? Also, source analysis?