We use rss feeds of the bbc to display news on maps.
We match names of countries to match the feed with locations. We will refine this so that we can do the same on a city level and can produce detailed maps (Britain, Europe Whatever we want.) The cool thing is that you can insert the map you have made on your own site by copy/pasting some HTML/javascript (try this link: http://worldmap66again.notlong.com)
This is excellent - I'm not sure of the practial use.. but it looks great
Looks quite interesting, has potential - more news items would improve it I think and perhaps a better way of viewing them (not exactly sure how).
Another smart way of using maps with information feeds. Having worked a lot with interactive visualisations, of course I love it! Obviously there needs to be a lot of interface improvements in order to make more news items visible and accessible.
Compare with this: http://paulrademacher.com/housing/
A very smart combination of google's maps and Craigslist housingmaps.
Fantastic! i love it! (Although is Havana really that far north ?) Cheers, Lwin
Very Nice :)
Is that using XMLHttpRequest ?