Use Cases
Map The News
News organizations can use First Draft GIS to include a map with all of their news articles. Just drop an iframe that points to https://firstdraftgis.com and see a map magically appear on your page. First Draft GIS creates the map by going to your web page, identifying places mentioned on the page and then dropping those points on a map.
Visualizing Data Stores
Use First Draft GIS to visualize the contents of your large datastores. Better Know The Opposition used First Draft GIS to map 25,584 press releases and public statements from opposition and rebel groups. They were able to identify areas in which the groups have demonstrated interest and improve understanding of local actors in complex conflicts.
Class Projects
Students use First Draft GIS to quickly put together maps before their due dates. One student used First Draft GIS to make a map of supposed UFO sightings in all 50 states by inputing urls to tables of events for each state found on http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxloc.html.
Track Social Media Trends
First Draft GIS can locate tweets and social media posts and then put them on a map. We have a robust API that will work with your data in whatever format you have it. Get in touch and we will write integration code especially for you!