Prototypes
Map of the News
A map of the news. Well that was the plan but it's not as easy as I'd have hoped to work out where a news item comes from.
The system grabs the local feeds and tries to work out where the story came from. It does this by checking for nouns in the description tag of the RSS and scanning its database of places (that map to longitude and latitude).
Uses myGmaps (which uses Google Maps) to draw the news onto the map.
Note, it tends to fail miserably at working out where a news item is from, done as a proof of concept.
- 23 May 2005 04:53 PM
An updated version is at:
http://boneill.ninjagrapefruit.com/wp-content/bbc/newmaps/
Although the code that tries to work out where the article is from has not changed there are some edits.
i) The site is now automatically updated with news every 30 minutes.
ii) The older the news item, the more transparent the marker.