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Map local gigs/events/campaigns

  • Jeremy Sillett

If I want to go out in NE London, as I live there I'd like to see what's on near to where I live as I cycle everywhere and I'm lazy! So how about listing the different strands of the bbc site on a google map by date and post code. So I can look up theatre, on 6th August and see what's on where. Or acoustic music on 25th December in Dartford, when I see my parents at Crimbo. Or political/spiritual/environmental meetings in October, plotting where and when. So basically making a screen like http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2005/05/31/yourmanor_hackney_feature.shtml
more usable, plotting their locations, what's on and when.
Even though I've just been looking for the BBC What's On Events pages only to find out it's been closed down. So I thought I'd pop it up here to see if anyone else would like to pick this up and run with it! Cheers.

  • 04 Aug 2005 09:21 AM

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  • 1.
  • On 04 Aug 2005 10:24 AM,
  • Tom Smith said:

Exactly... it wouldn't take much to do either... see...

http://dev11.otherworks.com/theotherblog/Articles/2005/06/27/iUudDwYuOQ

I would like to see something like that too, but the problem is that the data isn't available through Backstage at the moment.

There are still some areas of the country with information about what is on near you, so that data could be used to put it on a map. Berkshire, for example, has the data at http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/music/listings/2005/august.shtml

Any chance of seeing an XML feed of something like that?

  • 3.
  • On 08 Aug 2005 11:02 PM,
  • Tom said:

I think http://upcoming.org/ will sort you out.

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