Every week, we offer a new map on the homepage of El Comercio.com.pe. Each week the theme of the map changes – today’s is about recent airplane tragedies. We work with Google Maps.
Maps are an extremely powerful tool that allows us to re-write stories and set contexts for them, showing precedents, historical records and the evolution of events. With maps, information can be presented in a visually attractive way. Plus, maps are understandable at a glance and show at lot in little space. They are simple and go to the heart of stories.
Some other maps published by El Comercio recently were Circuses in the capital, Peruvian footballers playing abroad, Noise pollution in Lima, Wi-Fi areas in Lima and Earthquakes in Perú. There are many more, always published right under the podcasts and on top of the blogs.