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At 6:38pm on March 23, 2008, Erica Smith said…: Whoa, that is a map I did! I hadn't see that! Last week I updated that map a lot to include this year's flooded areas. How fun and random!

We do use Flash -- we have a couple of people who are very good at it, and a couple of us who are learning. But it's mostly for projects, not the "little" bar charts and graphics you see in the paper every day. I was trying to find a way to simplify creating those graphics.

And mapping is still something we're experimenting with, too. When I originally did that flood map, Google wasn't providing the iframe codes or anything like that, so you had to work a little harder to embed a map on your site. Now it's very easy -- someone in the graphics department put together a map of road closings late last week. Other maps that we do are built in Caspio or, my favorite, just written in JavaScript or a little fun with Ajax. (But not many sane print designers would want to do that, I know!) Of course, the way to get started is to start playing with it. That's how (and why) the Post-Dispatch started linking to that flood map last year.

At 12:15am on February 27, 2008, Ryan Sholin said…: Welcome! Looks like you're already jumping into the groups and meeting up with folks, so my work is done ;)

At 8:36am on February 26, 2008, David Poulson said…: Hi Nancy,

Good to hear from you. I worked in the Lansing Bureau for about a dozen years. I'be been teaching at MSU for the past five years. How are you liking Grand Rapids? I understand that Meegan is now an online editor there. We worked together in Lansing.