There’s a lot of talk about the end of printed newspapers. While I hope this won’t be the case (for the good ones), German newspapers are tackling the issue by enriching their online editions with tools unavailable to the paper edition: interactive maps.

This spring the Morgenpost published the Social Atlas of Berlin. It’s interesting to visualize on these maps the demographic structure of each Berlin area. It’s fun to push the buttons and see what % of people under 14 or above 65 live in your same neighborhood. You may discover a thing or two you didn’t know!

Good to see tools more interesting than slide-shows or embedded youtube paraphernalia on online newspaper editions…I wonder when Repubblica will come up with a similar map for Rome!