Occupy Wall Street on Google Maps. The Daily Kos has created a Google Map of over 200 Occupy Wall Street events and Facebook pages throughout the United States. The map shows the location of Occupy Wall Street solidarity events throughout the country. The links take users to Facebook pages to help them find a nearby Occupy Wall Street Facebook group. Meanwhile Meetup's Bing Map of Occupy Together Meetups show that the movement is now growing worldwide. As well as showing Occupy Together Meetup's in the U.S. the map shows what looks like hundreds of Occupy Together protests in other countries around the world. Via: Mashable. Four Maps of Occupy Wall Street’s Global Impact. One month and one day after the first group of protesters gathered in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street has become an international phenomenon.
How much of an international phenomenon? There’s many ways to measure it and some intrepid data journalists have put together maps showcasing worldwide news articles, tweets, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, and Facebook pages dedicated to the cause. Worldwide Press Created by the folks at Mother Jones, this map displays more than 215 locations (as of 10/15) of Occupy gatherings and arrests.
#Occupy Tweets Cravify, a service similar to Craigslist that lays out its data in an interactive map, created a special bonus tab on their page showcasing the volume of tweets around the #Occupy protests around the world. Facebook Pages The Huffington Post, using data from DailyKos, looks the state of activism on Facebook in response to the Occupy Wall Street protests.
Social Media Map. Occupy Wall Street maps injustice with celebration. The sound rang out at exactly 4 p.m. last Friday: four measured chimes increasing in pitch. Ding, ding, ding, ding! Standing in concentric circles with clasped hands, protesters held the last note, and it echoed against the New York Stock Exchange. Tourists and workers stopped to stare as the people-powered bell chimed again. Inside, another bell was ringing — a mechanical, computerized sound marking the end of the day’s trading. Six months since the Occupy movement began, it was clear that the bell inside was losing its resonance, and the “people’s gong” outside was getting louder. After last weekend, news of the “police riot” on Saturday night in Liberty Plaza made headlines. Yet our actions were not about violence or anger. Even after Saturday’s eviction from Liberty Plaza, we gathered outside the courthouse at 100 Centre Street on Sunday and Monday, tired but festive.
Last Thursday, hundreds marched to a Bank of America branch in Lower Manhattan. Video by Natasha Singh. Mapping Mashups » Maps of the #Occupy movement. Mapping Mashups Skip to content Maps of the #Occupy movement I am collecting links to maps of the #OccupyWallStreet protests around the world. If you know of any maps that aren’t listed here, please let me know. Maps of #Occupy around the world: Maps of Occupy camps Google Maps : Hand drawn by Cassie Thornton (matterinthewrongplace.tumblr.com): In OpenStreetMap (note: camps may be deleted from OSM when they are evicted in physical space) How you can help map! You can help draw maps of your local #Occupy camp. Don’t see your city listed?
These maps can be used to add data to OpenStreetMap, the free and open source map of the world. Know of any more maps? Email: alan at mappingmashups.net. Occupy Wall Street Global Map is a Birds-Eye View of Discontent. One month after the first protesters showed up on Wall Street, similar movements have popped up in cities throughout the world — and many more are being planned or discussed. As "Occupy Wall Street" evolves into "Occupy Everywhere," several new services are mapping the social media chatter surrounding them. Similar to the dashboards news outlets like Al Jazeera and independent projects like IAmJan25 and HyperCities created to track social media surrounding the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street maps now show where relevant geotaged tweets, YouTube videos and Flickr images are being posted, in real time.
"I don't really have a strong political opinion," says Humphrey Flowerdew, who started mapping Occupy Wall Street tweets on Cravify.com. "I'm just interested in technology and what practical things you can do with it. " He and his partner Trung Huynh, who are both based in London, originally built Cravify to aggregate and map real estate listings.