Evening Star polls users in interactive Christmas lights competition and map mashup

Posted by Martin Stabe on 4 January 2008 at 10:51
Tags: Archant, Google Maps

Before Christmas, the print edition of Fleet Street 2.0 noted some festive Christmas lights map mashups, like those which have been produced for several years now by the Bakersfield Californian in the United States.

Here’s a good example of an online holiday lights feature from a British newspaper site: the Evening Star in Ipswich used a Google Maps mashup as part of it Suffolk Christmas contest for the best local lights display. The paper’s marketing manager, Sue Gipps, arranged a prize of £500 of Focus DIY vouchers.

Using the site’s poll functionality, 1,065 users of the site voted to determine the winners, Archant Suffolk web editor James Goffin said.

Fiore and Val Masullo of Felixstowe Road in Ipswich, pictured above, won after getting more than half the votes.

(Photo: Owen Hines / Archant)

Tags: Archant, Google Maps