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  "id": "1996-february-lost-your-way-in-car-maybe-a-map-would-help",
  "slug": "1996-february-lost-your-way-in-car-maybe-a-map-would-help",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/1996-february-lost-your-way-in-car-maybe-a-map-would-help.html",
  "year": 1996,
  "month": "February",
  "monthNum": 2,
  "headline": "Lost your way in CAR? Maybe a map would help.",
  "kicker": "Uplink update",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "",
  "summary": "This issue of Uplink explores how newsrooms use desktop mapping programs to identify geographic patterns and create analytical maps that help visualize stories, covering available tools, costs, and data sources.",
  "keywords": [
    "mapping",
    "newsrooms",
    "data"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Technology",
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Journalism & Newsroom"
  ],
  "technologies": [
    "ArcView",
    "MapInfo",
    "Atlas GIS"
  ],
  "full_text": "This issue of Uplink looks at how desktop mapping programs can help you identify geographic patterns and create images to help readers better understand your stories.\n\nNewsrooms have used desktop mapping to locate clusters of blighted properties, pinpoint pollution and analyze demographics. News artists then convert the results into often startling analytical maps.\n\nOur stories tell you about these successes, walk you through downloading mapping data from the Internet, describe what programs are available, how much they cost and where you can get them.\n\nAlso inside are stories on the results of two national surveys revealing what hardware and software newsrooms are using - including mapping programs.",
  "provenance": {
    "extracted_by": "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6",
    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
  },
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