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on Thursday August 30, @05:11PM
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from the extra-extra,-check-it-out-on-a-map dept.
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Here's an interesting map mashup using Yahoo!Pipes linked to on AnyGeo Blog. From the write up: "The app grabs news from google news (yes indeed, GISuser.com news gets crawled by this news crawler - a great benefit of getting your news listed here) and displays on the map where you can then scroll through the results, view a synopsis and click-through for a full read if the caption looks interesting."
This reminded me of another news application called newsmap that aggregates google news, visualizing stories in boxes proportional to the amount of coverage they are receiving using a treemap algorithm. Very cool. Now if someone could only combine both concepts: amount of story coverage and georeferencing to a news app...
This reminded me of another news application called newsmap that aggregates google news, visualizing stories in boxes proportional to the amount of coverage they are receiving using a treemap algorithm. Very cool. Now if someone could only combine both concepts: amount of story coverage and georeferencing to a news app...
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CBS News In Google Earth
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The Google Earth Blog informs us of CBS offering their News in Google Earth in a convenient manner. From the blog: "They put a lot of stories in the same city (Washington, DC, NYC). Now when you click on placemarks on the same city they spread out into a star pattern allowing you to see all the stories from that location. By the way, the news stories are usually accompanied by nice relevant photos and a link to more details. Often video accompanies the stories once you go to their web page. Very professional multimedia content."
iCommunity.TV - News with Google Earth Location
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The Google Earth Blog details iCommunity.TV, which geolocate new using Google Earth. From the blog: "Each video or channel is georeferenced and shown with a Google Map, or you can download a "KML" to view the location of the news in Google Earth. The channels are network links and can be saved for future viewing in GE. You can also get RSS feeds for the same information."
Journalism Going Hyperlocal?
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The Memory Link offers a short entry on the localization of journalism and the ties with geospatial technologies. It links to this Frontline article about hypoerlocalization of newspaper: "The second thing that's happened at the Tribune and at the L.A. Times in particular is that newspapers around the country have figured out that what you have to do today to survive is provide local news coverage. People want to read about what's going on in their own communities, and the Web usually can't provide that. The Web can tell you what's going on in Iraq; the Web can tell you what's going on in Washington, D.C. It can't tell you what's going on in Des Moines if you live in Des Moines." This article seems to completely miss the point about the geo-enablement of the web. See related stories.
Australia's ABC Maps its News
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All Points Blog discuss examples and links to an article about Australia Broadcasting Corporation now mapping the location of news items. From the article: "You can also find more results based on distance from the story. For example, 25km. We noticed that in some cases a link saying “show in map” is visible on a results page but clicking it returns, “no geospatial information found for this document.” What we did find was also very general. A story about the Sydney, Kingsford Smith International Airport, marks Sydney on the map but not the actual airport. Still, cool idea and something we are likely to see more of from all of the major players." CBS did something similar last year.
Webmapp.com: Social News with a Local Focus
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Ahmed Adam writes "I just put up an early beta of webmapp.com, a social news site with a local focus. Users can submit, comment on and rate news stories, articles or websites, but every item must be accompanied by a set of coordinates. Visitors are only shown items that fall within a user specified region. There's also a georss feed for each section." See also related links below: several news services now have geospatial features.
YourStreet Launched - Hyperlocal News Tool
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All Points Blog informs us the new local news website YourStreet is launching today. From the how it works: "YourStreet transforms the way you experience local news by indexing and mapping thousands of articles, blogs, and conversations down to the street level. YourStreet connects you to the local information that impacts you most – what’s going on in your town, your neighborhood and even your block.
YourStreet scans thousands of newspaper sites and local blogs each day to bring you the most comprehensive local news available anywhere." I copied below the several previous stories on similar attempts at hyperlocalizing news.
Technology: Online Raster Map Georeferencing and GeoSearch News 1 comment
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TMN and FGT discuss two products by MetaCarta. The first one is Map Rectifier, an online raster data georeferencing and registration tool. The second one is GeoSearch News, from the press release: "GeoSearch News indexes an extensive collection of more than 1,400 national, international and local news sources every hour in addition to direct feeds from the Associated Press and Reuters. GeoSearch News provides users a single site on which they can learn what is happening now at any destination in the world." This is not the first similar tool, see related stories below. Update: 04/23 23:16 GMT by S : Corrected intro for accuracy, thanks to Chris Schmidt.
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