• Mapping Farm Subsidy Payments in Sweden

By FarmSubsidy.org and advocates in Sweden

After FarmSubsidy.org began compiling information on farm subsidy funds from Swedish government sources, it had so much data it was difficult to make sense of it. To understand this data and present it in a powerful way, it plotted farm subsidy payments on a Google Map so that people could zoom in to see what money went where to carry out their own investigations and draw their own conclusions. 

TOOLS USED: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, Xapian database (open source software), Google Maps, website.

LINKS TO LEARN MORE:

FarmSubsidy website

FarmSubsidy slideshow presentation

• Visualising the Crisis in Darfur

By advocates/technologists working with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

A team of advocates and technologists collaborated on a complex 3D map to display the damage to over 2000 villages; show the location of 2.5 million internally displaced persons and refugees; and provide open access to numerous photos, videos, and testimonies from Darfur.  

TOOLS USED:Google Earth, data from the United Nations and Amnesty International, photos and videos, website.

LINKS TO LEARN MORE::

Map information

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website