We’ve written before about WNYC’s Your Uncommon Economic Indicators (YUEI for lack of a better term!) project, which asks listeners to send in videos, stories, and photos showing how the economic downturn is being seen on a street-by-street level. This is just one of several projects mapping the economy, but now the technology behind YUEI is available for individuals and stations. WNYC’s John Keefe explains in this video:

A new photo essay project from Michigan Public Radio takes us through home foreclosures across the state, including interviews with contributors. In one of the pictures, homeowner Eric Lewis talks about what he thinks is broken in the current housing system:
“People are too willing to walk away from the problems they created and give them to someone else… As far as I’m concerned, my house is worth just as much as it was 20 years ago.”

The ongoing Mapping Main Street documentary project, part of the MakersQuest initiative, finds stories about towns Main Streets across America from Queens to Chattanooga to Wisconsin. If you have a story or photograph from your town’s main street, add it here.

But do we have too many maps? New Hampshire Public Radio’s Virginia Prescott, who hosts Word of Mouth, spoke with writer Alex Hutchinson, who talks here about what it means to have a sense of direction.

Online Exclusive: Does My Sense of Direction Suck? from The Walrus Magazine on Vimeo.